Pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine, it’s all noise. As a construction leader, there’s only one thing that matters: Servicing your customers and delivering your projects on time, under budget, safely with a high degree of quality. That’s what you did before the Pandemic. That’s what you’ve done during the Pandemic. That’s what you’ll do after the Pandemic. Despite…
Ordinary construction executives have their calendars stuffed with meetings from Monday through Friday. You want to be exceptional. Here’s how you get there using an elimination strategy. Look at your calendar. How many weekly project update meetings do you attend because you want to support your project manager or want the owner to see your…
A vital exercise for construction company CEOs In the world of sports, the best executives are always evaluating their roster of talent. They strive every day, season after season, to field a team of talented players that fit with their organization’s culture. Great construction CEOs do the same thing. They consistently assess the people in…
Project Managers (PMs) are considered successful if their projects are profitable. But think about that method of evaluation. How much control does a PM have over project profit? On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being no control, 10 being complete control? They aren’t a 1, but they are certainly not a 10. That…
We are all familiar with how the military uses the principle of “tours of duty.” A soldier will rotate from one commander to another, spend time at the front lines, logistics, and technical areas to build their competencies and experiences. Do you know how to use this principle in your company to develop talent? Think…
I swore that we’d never get a dog. My wife and I have five kids. Getting a dog is almost like having another kid and, at times, way more inconvenient, so what’s the point? My only daughter had a different perspective. She felt lonely as the middle child surrounded by two older and two younger…