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Beyond the Numbers: How to Turn a Quarterly Recap into a Learning Event

Beyond the Numbers: How to Turn a Quarterly Recap into a Learning Event

Quarterly recap meetings have a bad reputation. Too often, they become little more than someone reading financials aloud while managers

Stop Chasing Unicorns: Why It’s Time to Break Up With Your Dealership Org Chart

Stop Chasing Unicorns: Why It’s Time to Break Up With Your Dealership Org Chart

Must be detail-oriented, strategic, charismatic, data-driven, creative, and available nights and weekends. Might be time to admit the

Repeating the Same Thing Expecting Different Results PART 3: Breaking the Cycle; How to Stop the “Insanity”

Repeating the Same Thing Expecting Different Results PART 3: Breaking the Cycle; How to Stop the “Insanity”

If Part One explored the individual blind spots that keep us trapped in ineffective patterns, Part Two pulled back the

Repeating the Same Thing Expecting Different Results PART 2: Organizational Behavior; Cultural Traps, and Inertia

Repeating the Same Thing Expecting Different Results PART 2: Organizational Behavior; Cultural Traps, and Inertia

In Part One, we peeled back the curtain on a phenomenon that plagues dealership owners and GMs everywhere: the habit

Repeating the Same Thing Expecting Different Results  PART 1: Why We Fail to See It in Ourselves

Repeating the Same Thing Expecting Different Results PART 1: Why We Fail to See It in Ourselves

Most of us can easily recite the famous warning often attributed to Einstein: “Doing the same thing over and over

The Hidden Cost of Always Having the Answer

The Hidden Cost of Always Having the Answer

If you're a dealer principal or general manager, your ears are probably finely tuned to pick up certain

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30.9%
Trade-ins underwater
Edmunds Q1 2026
$7,183
Avg. negative equity
All-time high
22.9%
84-month loan share
Exceeds lease penetration
6.80%
Subprime delinquency
32-year high