I am in a daze!
I received a gorgeous book, Crawl Space Science: What to Have Done … And Why, by Larry Janesky. The book has sold 115, 000 copies! Larry runs Basement Systems Inc., of Seymour, CT. The book is graphically brilliant (he gives credit to Re-imagine!), easy to use, astoundingly informative—and I got it just as Susan and I were in the midst of discussing a new use for our moldy basement.
Professionally, there is simply nothing I love … LOVE … more than Excellence in “impossible” places!!!
(Recall my recent riff on Jim Penman’s Jim’s Group—2,600 franchisees in Australia, NZ, UK. Cleaning. Dog washing. Handyman. Fencing. Paving. Pool care. Etc. Etc.)
Why, why, why do the likes of me and Jim Collins and Ram Charan keep using, almost exclusively, large, publicly traded companies as exemplars? Laziness? (Exception, touted here before: Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead Of Big—by Bo Burlingham.)
Go, Larry!
Go, Jim!
Go, Bo!
[NB: Did I mention that Larry’s business has grown like Topsy, with revenue now topping $50,000,000!]