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...of a winning record in the long season to come. If you're running a business you also need some "spring training" time to evaluate your lineup and maybe make some key position changes or trades in order to remain competitive.

If you're involved in the mushroom business today, you have no lack of challenges: labor issues, energy costs, crop yields, compost quality, competitors--the list goes on and on. In this article I'll throw one more challenge into the mix: "Have you developed the best possible management team to help you run your business?" Just like the baseball manager, doing a good job of developing talent is essential to having a winning team.

Why Lenders Are Interested In Your Lineup

As a lender, I spend lots of time looking at financial performance and it's certainly important that we make loans to financially successful businesses. (It's kind of like looking at your team's won / lost record). Loan requests are evaluated on the basis of financial...

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