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Financial Health

Financial Success In The New Year

Most of you have heard the quote, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Most of us, however, have never learned how to plan.

Dave Luehr January 6, 2020

Process Stability

How To Be A Great Production Manager

Whether you operate a small shop or a big shop, someone has to manage all those cars and people out in the shop – you might as well get great at it, right?

Dave Luehr November 5, 2019

Leadership

A Global Approach To Making Money

The Problem Many industry experts teach shop leaders that the best way to ensure profitability is through the “job costing” method. Job costing is a

Dave Luehr October 6, 2019

Process Stability

The Journey to Operational Excellence

One of the commonalities between most collision repair shops is chaos. I believe many shop owners have become complacent with chaos, chalking it up as

Dave Luehr September 6, 2019

Process Stability

Creating a High-Quality Value Stream

One could easily debate that an auto body shop is an unlikely place to see an assembly line, especially when you try to visualize “assembly

Dave Luehr August 14, 2019

Leadership

Building a Powerful Collision Repair Business with a Technician’s Mindset

As I write this, I am on a long flight home from Australia where I had the pleasure of speaking to shop owners facing many

Dave Luehr May 13, 2019

Business Skills

Working Hard On the Right Things

I really can’t think of many industries whose people work as hard as our friends in the collision repair industry. When I spend time in

Dave Luehr June 14, 2016

Leadership

Unleash Your Power With a Coach!

I remember the days of struggling to get out of bed to keep the bills paid; the dream of entrepreneurial-freedom, a thing of the distant

Dave Luehr March 5, 2016

Leadership

Why Winners Win – Deliberate Practice

There are two traits that I most commonly witness among the most successful collision business leaders I work with. First, they tend to work with

Dave Luehr March 4, 2016

Process Stability

Make More Money Using Theory of Constraints

Make More Money Using Theory of Constraints Most of you readers have heard about Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, or simply Lean. But have you heard

Dave Luehr October 6, 2015