Not many people were starting new businesses at the peak of the 2008 recession, but Jim Guerin took that leap.
Defying popular wisdom, Guerin resigned from his longtime, well-paying job to start his own operation and achieved remarkable success with a single guiding principle: Take chances at the right time.
Using skills he cultivated as a business development strategist for a large wastewater management company, the owner and president of JG Environmental in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, started his own outfit purely as a brokering operation — bidding, planning, and coordinating jobs without actually owning or operating any of his own equipment. He made
