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Beauty and Order – A New Textbook for those in the Landscape Industry (and others)

 

 

 

 

Author

Randy James is author of the textbook Beauty & Order: 51 Lessons from my life’s work in Landscape Management and success in small business. Randy is a K-State graduate (Horticulture undergraduate; Plant Pathology Master’s degree) who has owned landscape management businesses for many years.  Many of you may have heard Randy speak at the Kansas Turf and Landscape Conference or others.  Randy provides guidance to those interested in owning and managing companies in this industry and others.  It was not written for his benefit, but to assist those in the industry.  Highly recommended!

About the Book

Starting a service business is a work of art. Whether the intention is for it to remain a practice or to be scaled, the creation takes the whole person- left brain, right brain and soul.

What is going on in the mind of a person when the desire to go-it-alone takes hold?

Where do you start? When do you start? How do you start?

What obstacles and struggles can one expect?

In a conversational style, the author shares his small business journey in landscape contracting in a simple and vulnerable way. The hope being it might spark the next entrepreneur to dream of a way to meet both their personal needs and the market place.

Or it may inspire an existing small business owner to take their business to another level.

Either way, the world will be better for what they create.

Several sites on which you can access:

Blurb

Barnes and Noble

Amazon