Why I Love To Blog: Reason # 3,401: Another Success Story -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

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Data points

• Summit Energy Services
• broad array of skill sets
• construction and maintenance for oil companies
• lays pipeline
• five employees 19 months ago
• 162 employees today
• $100,000 to $3,000,000 revenue in "year-and-a-half" -- that's MONTHLY revenue -- $3,000,000/month

From the Dickinson Press:

“In any company, it’s your employees that bring in that expertise, not the owners,” he said. “No company can be successful without it’s employees.”

Tom Wall, the company’s director of business development, said he was a consultant for putting the company together when it started. He added Sweeny has a “servant approach” to business.

“Leaders are not entitled to be given things,” he said. “Leaders are accountable and responsible to ... provide the best possible environment to provide good work. It is very difficult to describe, but you can feel it walking in. People are just a lot more comfortable here.”

Wall also said he has never seen a business with one owner do so well.

Enjoy the article; it's seldom I find such a positive story in the Dickinson Press. Hopefully we see more of the same.