It takes a savvy manager to admit when there are deficiencies in your business – that it's not being run the way you would like it to be – and then to come to the realization that only one person can turn it around: You.
That is exactly what Mike Rice – owner of A-Throne, a portable restroom business based in Long Beach, Calif. – did in 1996, when he and his partner (his father, George) decided to get serious about revamping the image of their then-16-year-old company. They brought in new portable restroom units (and cycled out the old) and
