How do you stay focused in the middle of the daily drama and complete your most important tasks? Most construction leaders struggle with distractions and interruptions that stop them from completing their most important tasks. Let’s say you have a big bid due next Thursday, and you’ve got a week to put your number together….
Every sports franchise looks to its history to inspire its present, but winning today is what’s most important. The NFL playoffs are here, and last weekend, the Green Bay Packers, led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers, took on the San Francisco 49ers. The Packers and Rodgers won the Super Bowl in 2011. Over the next decade…
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…