The culture at Wilson Lumber can be healthy, encouraging, and challenging; or it can be depressing and toxic. Either way, we owners are in charge of it.
When we take our guard down, stop being fake, and just be real with one another, you know what happens? Trust is built.
Wilson Lumber has been named a 2021-22 Top Tiger by Auburn University and the Harbert College of Business.
It’s easy to think, especially in the last 24 months, that a supplier is someone who calls you just to tell you how much your price is going up or which products you ordered are not coming.
People are what matter. Not people are number one and profit is number two. People are number one, everything else pales in comparison.
‘Christlike principles’ is a much better base for decision making than the whims of how I’m feeling at the moment. And I’ve found that doing business for God’s glory is way more fun than doing it for my glory.
A bottle of Coca-Cola at Wilson Lumber cost only 35 cents when Russ Wilson started working here circa 1989.
Grace is the one thing people need the most, and peace is the one that people want the most.
