Business View Magazine | November 2019

96 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 find that people have to have the room to grow and bring things to the table.” MY Shower Door’s company culture also extends itself outward toward the greater community. Daubmann says that the firm sponsors many local school programs and, as a member of the Economic Development Council for South Lee County, Florida, he reveals that he is launching an initiative he calls Work Signing Day. “I’d like to take credit for inventing it, but it’s not mine,” he remarks. “I saw it in a newspaper that it was done in another part of the country and it was very successful. You know how students have a signing day if they’re going to play football for a university? On a certain day all these student athletes who get scholarships go down to the gymnasium and the school celebrates the fact that they’re going off to these schools. So, we’re going to do a similar thing for students who are going directly into the workforce. We’re going to get the future employer involved, and the parents, and we’re going to celebrate these students that are deciding not to go into college for whatever reason. And their future employers will be there to celebrate along with them. And this will be done as part of our Economic Development Council, where our vision is to help local businesses sustain themselves and grow organically.” In conclusion, Daubmann stresses that MY Shower Door and D3 Glass are family businesses, and that ever since Bill and Donna decided that they needed to take care of their family first, back when Keith became ill, all business decisions which have helped make the firms so successful, have been made as a family. “We’ve stayed tight and made all the decisions together,” he declares. “We don’t always agree, but we always work it out. We’ve done it since we started.” PREFERRED VENDORS n NSG Pilkington North America www.pilkington.com/en/us n Brown & Brown Southwest Florida www.bbswfla.com