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It was a pleasure sitting with Lafayette, LA, contractor Barry Duplechin during International Service Leadership's (ISL's) recent two-day Performance Planning Retreat, held at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL.
The affable owner of Barry's Air Conditioning, Inc., is a rare breed in that he may be only one of a handful of contractors who actually feeds his employees lunch each work day. He actually has his technicians all come in from the road at noon to consume one of his culinary creations - even if it's a smoked turkey sandwich.
"We talk about a lot of things at lunch," said Duplechin, with his noticeable (and comforting) Southern drawl.
During the course of our chitchat, it was nice to discover that Duplechin has been a faithful subscriber of The News for more than 20 years. He was asked what more, if anything, this publication could do to help the contractor succeed in business.
"Continue writing about mold," he was quick to reply. "It definitely is a problem, and we need...