Cover Story
Upsize Growth Challenge: Finish line
?I know a lot of people that want that quick million, but that?s not how it works,? says Craig Kruckeberg, CEO of Spray Control Systems Inc. in Blooming Prairie.
?Growth has to come. I?ve learned you?ve got to be patient.?
Those are words of wisdom from the overall champion of this year?s Upsize Growth Challenge. His company, one of three winning companies audience vote during the Upsize Growth Challenge Seminar & Celebration on June 13. Continue reading →
Letter From the Editor
Corn
[corn] “It’s just like watching the corn grow,” says Craig Kruckeberg, talking about generating 20 percent revenue growth each year for the last six at his family-owned company, Spray Control Systems Inc. “It’s kind of boring here. There’s nothing happening. Well, it is happening, but I’ve been watching it for 22 years.” And so this […] Continue reading →
Business Builders
Estate plans
At some point you will leave your business. Despite this certainty, many business owners never stop to consider what will happen after they are gone, much less how to put together a recipe for a successful estate plan.
You know your business better than anyone. Although business partners, family members, and the government will throw something together in an emergency, only you can carefully create the perfect recipe for your business. Continue reading →
Recharge! How to plan time away from your business
No accountability. No time schedules. No decision overloads. No multitasking.
Everything was turned off when I took a four-month sabbatical from my job as president and one of four owners of a financial services firm, Askar Corp.
The stress of running a company of 20 employees had left me feeling tired, burned out and in need of time off. Continue reading →
Caught in a lawsuit? What to know about mediation
Imagine you, a business owner, are at your desk reading your mail. You note a letter on a key customer?s letterhead. As you read it, you see that it?s a response to a demand for payment your accounts receivable supervisor sent two weeks ago.
Instead of proposing a payment schedule ? the reaction you anticipated ? the customer is saying your company failed to provide the services it?s charging for. Continue reading →
Partnering
Two of the most important new civic buildings in Minneapolis opened to the public this spring ? the new Minneapolis Central Library and the new Guthrie Theater overlooking the Mississippi River.
How did our local architectural company partner with two internationally renowned designers, Cesar Pelli on the library and Jean Nouvel on the Guthrie, to create a pair of spectacularly diverse buildings without losing our own identity? Continue reading →
