For nearly 45 years, Fred Wilkinson toiled hard to grow Wilkinson Portables, a business that his parents started in 1958 with self-built plywood restrooms that weighed hundreds of pounds. Now his son, Chad Wilkinson, owns the company, and he and his wife, Kym Wilkinson, are busy — doing some heavy lifting of their own: modernizing the company and positioning it for further growth.
This process of one generation handing off the baton to another that wants to make big operational changes isn’t always easy, as Fred, 61, Kym and Chad Wilkinson can attest. “We butt heads every so often when they
