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Engaging the Workforce
When your business embodies your values, your culture will drive project success and cultivate a sense of purpose, achievement, and growth among your employees…
Designing Your Business the Way You Would a Building
Just as no building can stand without a solid foundation, nothing you do as a construction company matters as much as your ability to produce a project…
Strengths and Weaknesses - Setting the Debate
Even a master relationship builder cannot effectively mask his inability to understand critical business metrics and use them to manage projects. This weakness is not something that can be shrugged off…
How to Win Without Being the Low Bidder
If you’re a GC/CM, navigating the owner’s decision-making team can range in complexity. Question and discern the data you gather to identify all of the players and their various roles…
The Right Chief Executive at the Right Time
My experience tells me a company can thrive regardless of the skills that the Chief Executive brings to the table…
Learn to See it Coming
You cannot stop a storm from coming. Business, like nature, can be an unstoppable force, bringing conditions you must learn to adapt to and live with. Economic conditions, new technologies, workforce shortages, and more are realities you must adjust to and accept…
Are You Accepting Incompetence?
Break the cycle of incompetence in your company by implementing rigorous hiring practices and addressing deficiencies immediately. It's time to stop accepting mediocrity and invest in a competent, skilled workforce…
It's All About the Money, Until Its Not
To break free from the inefficient project pursuit cycle, contractors must recognize that they’re not in a project-selling environment. They’re in an account-based project selling environment…
Don't Chase Projects, Pursue Relationships
To break free from the inefficient project pursuit cycle, contractors must recognize that they’re not in a project-selling environment. They’re in an account-based project selling environment…
Claim Your Identity
It is time to build and run your business by design rather than chance…
Strategy Over Process
When the situation calls for it, deviations aren’t just acceptable, they are necessary and preferred. Deviations from your established processes have value. Whether you have strategic business reasons for a deviation, or you merely wish to experiment with another approach, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with…
Developing a Culture of Accountability (Part 2)
Increased personal ownership of mutual expectations leads to a higher likelihood of follow-through... True commitment arises when expectations are not forced upon team members…
Developing a Culture of Accountability (Part 1)
Creating a culture of accountability is essential for construction teams. While some exhibit strong accountability, others struggle. Here are key questions to assess your team’s accountability…
The Case for Transparency
Nobody benefits from secrecy. It undermines employee trust and hurts your company. Alternatively, transparency has transformative positive effects when executed correctly. Read on for how it works!