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Service Leadership

In 30 years Janice Bryant Howroyd has created a billion-dollar juggernaut using a business model around one specific area: work. Asserts Bryant Howroyd: “Work is what we know; work is what we do. Whether we’re helping to design and manage work or helping people to achieve work and careers.” It’s a simple but apt description for a company that ranks No. 2 on the BE Industrial/Service companies list and has shown phenomenal growth during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression—revenues have grown 111% in the past five years.

Hooking Investors

Al Nelson went on the third season of ABC’s Shark Tank seeking a $150,000 investment in his Miami-based technology business, EZ VIP. A kind of combination Expedia and OpenTable for...

A Succession Story

Jimmy Walker had left Laurel Ford Lincoln Kia Inc. (No. 59 on the BE Auto Dealers list with $21.7 million in revenues) in the hands of his managers to focus on his other dealerships. But when the business lost a combined $1.4 million in 2007, 2008, and 2009, the 25-year industry veteran was compelled to return to stop the red ink before transitioning the business to his daughter.

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