Total Landscape Care Digital Magazine
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breaking ground totallandscapecare.com /TotalLandscapeCare @TLCmagazine Editorial Editor-At-Large: Lauren Heartsill Dowdle Editorial Director: Marcia Gruver Doyle Online Managing Editor: Patty Vaughan editorial@totallandscapecare.com Design & Production Art Director: Emily Ezekiel Graphic Designer: Timothy Smith Advertising Production Manager: Linda Hapner production@totallandscapecare.com Construction Media Senior VP, Market Development, Construction Media: Dan Tidwell VP of Sales, Construction Media: Joe Donald sales@randallreillyconstruction.com Corporate Chairman/CEO: Mike Reilly President: Brent Reilly Chief Process Officer: Shane Elmore Chief Administration Officer: David Wright Senior Vice President, Sales: Scott Miller Senior Vice President, Editorial and Research: Linda Longton Vice President of Events: Alan Sims Vice President, Audience Development: Stacy McCants Vice President, Digital Services: Nick Reid Director of Marketing: Julie Arsenault 3200 Rice Mine Rd NE Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 800-633-5953 randallreilly.com For change of address and other subscription inquiries, please contact: totallandscapecare@halldata.com For subscription information/inquiries, please email: totallandscapecare@halldata.com. Total Landscape Care (ISSN # 1932-8303) is published monthly by Randall-Reilly Publishing Co. LLC, 3200 Rice Mine Road NE, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406. Single copy price: US $6, Canada/Mexico $9, Foreign $12. For subscriptions, call (800) 517-4979 in the U.S. or (847) 763-9610 outside the U.S. U.S. Periodicals Postage Paid at Tuscaloosa, AL and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: POSTMASTER: Send all UAA to CFS. (See DMM 707.4.12.5); NON-POSTAL AND MILITARY FACILITIES: send address corrections to Total Landscape Care, PO Box 2196, Skokie, IL 60076-9852. All contributions in the form of unsolicited letters, manuscripts, stories, materials, photographs or art are welcome, addressed to the editor. These submissions cannot be returned except where the sender provides a postage-paid, addressed, stamped envelope. RandallReilly Publishing Company, LLC cannot assume responsibility for unintentional loss or damage to submitted materials. All advertisements for Total Landscape Care magazine are accepted and published by Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC on the representation that the advertiser and/or advertising agency are authorized to publish the entire contents and subject matter thereof. The advertiser and/or advertising agency will defend, indemnify and hold Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC harmless from and against any loss, expenses or other liability resulting from any claims or suits for libel violations of right of privacy or publicity, plagiarisms, copyright or trademark infringement and any other claims or suits that may arise out of publication of such advertisement. Copyright ©2013 Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Total Landscape Care is a trademark of Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC neither endorses nor makes any representation or guarantee regarding the quality of goods and services advertised herein. Total Landscape Care is a proud supporter of... Lead From the Trenches All managers need an eye-opening experience – like what the executives featured on the show "Undercover Boss" go through. If the people calling the shots really understood what went on at every level of a business or program, there wouldn't be the new H-2B visa program rule. With the goal of attracting more American labor to less appealing, strenuous jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) increased wage requirements for the nonimmigrant workers brought here through H-2B. However, this "solution" hasn't quite panned out. (Read about the new rule in Field Report, page 7.) The DOL fails to realize the true effects the rule has on employers, making me wonder if they even understand how the program really works. Basically, the DOL needs to walk a day in a business owner's shoes. And that idea is true for landscapers, as well. Instead of just giving orders, landscape business owners need to understand what all that job entails. Not only will this managing style help them recognize future problems, it will also show employees their boss respects them and what they do. Edward Snyder, owner of Greenleaf Services in Linville, North Carolina, says it best. "Management is top down and bottom up. Meaning, if you're making decisions for your people in the company, you better know how that works and understand each of the tasks that are asked of someone." (Read more from Snyder in the Cover Story, page 21.) It's time for those in charge to get off of their thrones and start leading from the trenches. Lauren Heartsill Dowdle Editor-At-Large O C T O B E R 2013 TLC1013_EdNote.indd 5 Tot alLandsc a p eCa re. com 5 9/25/13 1:37 PM