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So, You Think you Have Problems?
It’s time to stop complaining and start planning for the new world I know you’re reading this in February, right around NADA time, but I’m writing it during the holidays and that has me thinking about all we’ve been through this year and what
Feb 1, 2010
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Ed Tonkin, NADA Chairman, Ron Tonkin Dealerships
Incoming National Automobile Dealers Association Chairman Ed Tonkin is a second-generation dealer from Portland, Oregon, who says he wants to help reshape NADA into a more efficient organization and involve more of the 62-plus directors around the co
Jan 10, 2010
Hired any Lazy Idiots Lately?
I find simply observing processes to be quite constructive. Sometimes just stepping back and carefully viewing how methodology is being carried out, yields the discovery needed to solve agonizing evils — and can be more effective than all the p
Jan 8, 2010
Fixed Operations Department Next to Crash
While developing The Garage workshop for auto dealers, I constructed an interesting Excel worksheet, designed to drive the point that the current service and parts department models must change now. The results startled me. Continuing to survive from
Dec 30, 2009