What’s the quickest way for you to undermine your credibility as a leader? One of the ways is to show a lack of integrity. I was chatting with one of my clients a number of months ago, and he made a list of the values that he wanted expressed in his leadership team. What…
From 1964 to the present day, the average dollar volume of work in construction has stayed about the same but the amount of competition has risen three times. This has had a massive impact on the industry, both in terms of labor availability, in terms of profit margins and all kinds of issues. How…
All of life is problem-solving and if you’re a leader in construction particularly, your day is filled with solving problems, some of which you may have created and some of which may be created by other people and some of which may be completely out of everyone’s control. How do you respond to those…
Do you ever sense you make lack a bit of power or authority in terms of your leadership, you can’t just step up and do what needs to be done? Perhaps the reason why is because you have a bad conscience. One of the reasons you have a bad conscience is you are doing…
Enthusiasm comes from the Greek work which means “possession by a god”. If you think about those old Greek myths when a god would come into someone or be manifested in the human form and they would be able to do superhuman things like today with Superman and Spiderman. How can you generate enthusiasm…
Think for a minute about the new project engineers that you have in your company, the guys and gals who are a little wet behind the ears, they’ve been with you for about six months or so now. As you sit down with them towards the end of the year and think about how…