Business Leadership
By David J. McClaskey, President, and Billy Schaefer, Vice-President If you lead a convenience store or manage fuel delivery operations, you know the feeling. Your best team member just called out sick, a delivery is...
After every Study Groups meeting, participants are asked to reflect on where they found the most value during the two or more days spent together. Across groups of 8–15 industry peers, the feedback has been...
You walk into a convenience store at 7:00 AM, needing coffee before a critical meeting. The team member is stocking shelves, doesn’t look up, and offers no greeting. You wait. And wait. Now imagine the...
When a reliable customer’s payment habits begin to slip, it is a signal you can’t afford to ignore. A variety of factors — new ownership, management changes, divorce, loss of a key customer or broader...
Change is no longer periodic, but constant: new systems, re-organizations, acquisitions, pricing strategies, safety programs, technology rollouts, leadership transitions. Yet despite the best intentions, most change efforts still fail to deliver the results leaders expect....
Environmental due diligence is an important consideration in most real estate transactions and development, but takes on particular importance when transferring, redeveloping or acquiring current or former service stations. Environmental due diligence provides prospective purchasers,...
