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Envisioning Green: An Extraordinary Small Business

Mark Sanborn

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . I cannot begin to express how impressed I am with Patrickā€˜s ability to carry out your organizations mission statement.

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How I Got My Team To Fail More

Harvard Business Review

It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. We went radical by re-casting our team’s mission statement into two words: Reinvent PBS. Also, PBS is the opposite of a top-down company.

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