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Jim Lee, author of FIANA Job Ticket, is president of the Floor Installation Association of North America (FIANA) and the retired owner of Professional Flooring Supply in Fort Worth, TX. During his career of more than 40 years, Jim has worked in all segments of the industry including retailing, distribution and manufacturing.
Each year, as the date of FIANA's annual convention and trade show approaches, those of us who organize the event start to grow concerned about how it will turn out and whether our members will get full value for their time and expense. We pore over our list of selected speakers looking for just the right mix to satisfy all attendees.
Have you not heard the stories, read the articles and listened to the so-called industry experts who forecast the impending doom of the floor covering distributor? If not, you just aren’t in tune with what’s been happening.
I've given a lot of thought to the rapid development of our cyberspace-driven, high-tech world. What I don’t quite understand is what the need for human beings will be in this space-age future — which we seem to be hell-bent on reaching, at the speed of light.
At the current rate at which our industry is changing, it is increasingly evident that our industry will soon become something that none of us, at this point, can even begin to comprehend.