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Much of the waste and recycling company's success is linked to management's ability to align employees under one vision and then grow them through the ranks. Since Rumpke Sr, chairman, president and CEO, took over the family business in 1978, the company has grown from $8 million in revenue to $407 million in 2008 revenue. [...] most of the company's management team knows what it's like to do their employees' jobs because they've done them themselves. [...] the employees know that history, too. "(Employees) look at those offerings by the week," Rumpke Sr. says.
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Rumpke Consolidated Cos. Inc.: Top of the Heap
Some people think that in order to reach a top position at Rumpke Consolidated Cos. Inc. that you need to be a relative. There are plenty of Rumpkes leading the company, but there are plenty of other last names, too.
"We have people in positions that aren't relatives, blond relatives," says William J. Rumpke Sr. "Everybody thinks they're a relative, and that's fine. That's the way we like the thinking to be. We want to all be thinking on the same line."Much of the waste and recycling company's success is linked to management's ability to align employees under one vision and then grow them through the ranks. Since Rumpke Sr, chairman, presi...See the full content of this document
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