If you look around the world, Americans have much to be grateful for, and so too does our once far greater industry. But as one carefully peers and ponders the details, one begins to sees that there’s so much more that could be accomplished in our nation. The same holds true for manufactured housing …
Don’t Be Another Victim, Push-Back Pay$, Phase Two of Manufactured Housing Revolution Read More »
There are a number of expressions we get from others, use and enjoy. One of my favorites in our Industry is the phrase, "Living the dream!" It is used in reply to, "how are you doing?" It's a pleasure to hear when well said. One that we coined is a question used to open a …
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Manufactured Happiness Read More »
There are four new records in manufactured housing we will review in rapid succession. Record # 1, YES! Communities has just hit their new record for number of communities and sites. This was accomplished via the major acquisitions they announced, linked above. Congratulations to all at YES! for their accomplishment. As we have been saying …
A friend of mine called from California today (I am writing this on Saturday) who was telling me, ‘I’ve been looking at the history of change in business and politics. Most of the time, positive new ideas comes not from the current leaders – the insiders – but from those who aren’t yet part of …
I just reviewed a housing news item for our Daily Business News blog. In the next decade, we need 16 million new housing units in the U.S. So, even though we are in the midst of this great foreclosure and housing finance debacle, we are on the brink of a boom driven by what every …
For those who read this blog closely, you recall the recent book review of Jim Collins’ bestselling book, Good to Great. The book was the result of five years of university-level study by some 21 researchers, drilled down into one volume. Good to Great was a scientific approach, not a collection of opinions. The book …
BHAG, SIB-KIS, Dominate Your Local Market and the Manufactured Housing Revolution Read More »
We touched on the topic recently of ‘not judging a book by its cover.’ We need to let ideas develop and be considered, based on their own merits. A senior industry executive handed me a copy of the audio book version of Good to Great by Jim Collins, last year. As part of my personal …
Jim Collins – ‘Good to Great’ – and Manufactured Housing Read More »
I. Return of the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show in 2011 Hats off to Dennis Hill at Showways Unlimited, as well as to the bold, forward looking manufacturers, exhibitors and others who are lining up rapidly behind the return of the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, coming up quickly in 2011! My understanding from recent conversations with …
Louisville Manufactured Housing Show’s Rebirth & more! Read More »
Another New Record! 30,300 readers here in July 2010 know what’s right! That’s 3700+… …more readers than July. We have THE MOST: top-featured writers, industry news including exclusive PODCASTS of NEWS AT NOON–fast, insightful business and market reports you can benefit from every biz day. Sign up now free and enjoy. Plus exclusive INdustry in …
History is often seen as a series of ‘great events.’ While great events obviously occur – the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Invasion of Normandy, the attack on the World Trade Center, the sub-prime bubble bursting in 2008 and so on – history is in fact made up of …
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