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Hand-selecting staff
April 14, 2025
Winning sports teams don’t require a roster full of only superstars, and neither do you.

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Charles Caswell
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March 26, 2025
Blueprinting is not just a technical process - it is a financial strategy.
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Man pushing a boulder
March 19, 2025
The shops that will make it through today’s challenges are the ones that do the hard things, the right things, consistently.
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A popular 1955 trade journal. Trade journals were localized in the 1940s and 1950s.
March 19, 2025
It was America’s Eisenhower-decade; life was pretty good for most people and the collision repair industry, as we know it today, began to evolve.
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Winning at Chess
March 18, 2025
Dealing with insurers may feel like a long, uphill battle, but there is strength in numbers and the actions we can take.
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March 4, 2025
Waste reduction in the shop is important, but even more basic is the measurement of flow.
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Crunching the numbers
March 3, 2025
Step 1: Is your staffing level rightsized?
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World War II accelerated the development and production of special aviation and industrial coatings, as found on this B-17 'Flying Fortress,' that would later fit peacetime applications.
Feb. 27, 2025
WWII brought massive changes to American society — and the collision repair industry.