They still need a director of production, more so than ever, and that seems to be where Marv's greatest interest and skills are, and why he took responsibility for the crops. But even he's finding he has to spend more time managing people than doing fieldwork. Jack is managing supervisors and laborers in the excavating business, sometimes running a bucket. But he also has responsibility for the farm's marketing, finance and long-range planning. These brothers want to grow.
Growth usually involves growing pains, and that's what they're experiencing now.
The first is focusing on what they each get done rather than how they each do it. The second is adapting to their inevitable change from laborers to managers. A manager's job in a growing business is to steadily get more effective at getting things done through people, which usually means spending less time doing things. That's a tough change for good farmers, but tomorrow's good farmers will be those who are able to change successfully. Online SF Online Copyright Meredith Corporation 1998.