Management & Leadership

Management and leadership are essential components of running successful organizations. While management focuses on the day-to-day operations and processes, leadership involves inspiring and guiding individuals and teams towards a shared vision and goal.

Virtuosity in Pool Service: Fostering Long-Term Strategies

By Claude Kershner IV

As defined in gymnastics, virtuosity is “performing the common uncommonly well.” My fitness coach taught me to apply this in training by focusing on the fundamentals above sophisticated movements, i.e., air squats vs. squat cleans. Candidly, I can use this mindset in everything I do, i.e. safely driving my car vs. leading a company. Likewise, in the pool & landscape industry, our field service teams must perform the essential things well because our service quality is on stage.

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Kershner Family

Building People through Essential Business – A Family Story about Legacy

By Claude Kershner IV

Then a few months later, a global pandemic threatened our business. Once again God redeemed what was originally His. We were “designated essential”, supported by the American economy and our business never stopped moving. It gave us a unique posture of service for our customers and we were able to show a familiar face in a time of uncertainty. There is no “free lunch” in effective leadership and there is no YouTube video that can teach me how to be ethically congruent over decades.

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