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New Year - 1/24/2011
New Years Day is just another day.
It is just another first day of another month that just
so happens to mark the beginning of a whole new year.
Yet, we give that day an amazing amount of power.
That day is supposed to be the day that we stop
overeating, the day we determine to shed extra pounds, perhaps
the day we decide to stop a bad habit.
In truth, those decisions could just as easily be made on
May 15th, or August 23rd, or October 5th.
But, we save them for the most powerful day in the year,
January 1.
In business, cycles begin and end on dates but
not because of dates.
Despite this fact, I doubt there was a single hardwood
lumberperson who didn’t have in the back of their mind that
January 1 would bring a better set of circumstances for our
industry. Did it? Read More
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Coastal Strenghts - 12/15/2010
Seventy years in the hardwood industry has
taught us many things.
One is that this industry is resilient and durable, so we
know it will recover stronger than it was.
Two is that if you don’t listen to your customers, you
won’t make it seventy years.
Here are some of the benefits we offer because
we listened. Maybe
these could benefit you too, so we wanted to explain these from
our perspective.
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Thanksgiving - 11/23/2010
What are you thankful
for?
We hear this asked in schools and
churches and other public settings this time of year, and the
responses can sound cliché.
Assuredly, what we express thanks for is genuine and
sincere. The
responses sound cliché, perhaps, because we only express
gratitude for basic things during this time of each year.
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Vote - 11/1/2010
Let’s see, I am
looking for a job where as long as I talk a good line, I can
‘succeed’ without any accountability.
That line would make a great purpose statement for a
resume, wouldn’t it? Read More
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Busy - 10/6/2010
Busier than a blind squirrel trying to find a nut . . . busier
than a one-armed paper hanger . . . busier than a one legged man
in a butt kicking contest. Read More
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Ricochet - 9/21/2010
Ever shoot a tracer round into a pond at
night and watch it skip off the water into a grove of trees
where it ricochets several times before burning out.
It is amazing how fast the direction of that speeding
bullet changes. The
lumber market and the news that surrounds it seems a lot like
that fired round.
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IWF - 8/30/2010
DOES SIZE MATTER?
It does, but only in so much as the size is
appropriate and practical to the intended result.
OK, this discussion is NOT akin to those commercials we
have all heard promising to help guys out.
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Coastal Today - 8/11/2010
This just
in . . . Live from the newsroom . . . now that we have the
attention of every good news junkie out there, (and aren’t we all
news junkies these days), we want to provide some insight to Coastal
Lumber both operationally and into the principles that guide us.
It is unfortunately easy to deal with companies and know too
little about them. No
one wants to admit that is the case, and often we assume and are
then surprised when we find out how much more there is to a company
than what we perceived.
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History of Coastal Lumber Company - 7/27/2010
WE AREN’T HISTORY, but we have
a lot of it. We
recognize to rely or dwell on history is ill advised.
However, our history is full of perseverance and resilience
that we have learned from and continue in present times.
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