So I called George, hey George, can you look through your outlook is, you know, and find this bit of info? Maybe George wasn't available or George couldn't find it and was like no, you know, it was really someone else, et cetera. There was a lot of that and I think there's a lot of that in a lot of different companies.
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But there are things like that that even though I was not hey, the plant expert coming into this company and maybe not even yet called the management expert in this company that were very solvable and these are issues that are getting in everyone's way every day.
So if I can get in there and I can help remove these barriers at whatever level, whether it be communication or finding information or you know, what to do if someone's on vacation, how do we handle that situation and cover for them? In a route based business, if I can do all of those things and figure out systems for doing those, then we're going to make the business better.
We're going to make everyone currently there more effective and honestly happier because they don't have to kind of bash their head into brick walls day in and day out and so on. So even just like populating a CRM and starting that process is one example of, you know, how that helped long term and it took some time and it was a heavy lift and so on but, but we got there and
so that was something that you did and other things like that. So making it basically this is professionalization or well maybe that's not professionalization, that's more digitization. So taking thing a paper based business and making it kind of cloud based.
Absolutely. And you, and you saw, you did that successfully and saw a lot of value come from doing so.
Absolutely. Yeah, there's and I could give you an endless number of examples just like that,
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Yeah, so I think for me EOS was a game changer. And you know, there's different operating systems out there I've heard work well for people like Rockefeller Habits or you know, great game of business or whatever, you pick one. But I'm familiar with eos, so I'll talk about, I think how that worked for me and worked for us in our business.
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