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Article: Fast Lane: Steve Soule, Building balance
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- Smart Business Indianapolis
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- December 1, 2006
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When there are four opinions on everything, things can get a little crazy.
Yet Steve Soule enjoys the push and pull he has with the three other managing members at CMR Construction and Roofing LLC. Soule and Ross Hail were the initial partners of the 100-employee company, and were later joined by Bryan Jones and John Brown. Soule, the CEO, views the partnership as a way of forming a good balance within the company.
"Ross comes up with some wild ideas, and I do, too. But he's kind of the protagonist, and I'm kind of the antagonist," Soule says. "He comes up with 50 ideas, and I shoot down 30 of them. A lot of the time my response is, 'That's a great idea, but how are we going to do that? Is ...