Developing Skilled Employees in an Unskilled Workforce

Good, experienced employees are hard to find. That is especially true on the tropical island of Roatan, part of the Bay Islands that lie 40 miles from the north coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea. This is the place where, a dozen years ago, Dan Taylor started what has grown into ACME Environmental Solutions.There’s plenty of labor on Roatan, but it is unskilled labor. High school diplomas are rare, and the number of people with education beyond high school can be measured with fractions of a percentage point. Even driver’s licenses are not common. Instead, every day an ACME flatbed truck