I’m coaching a young leader who I call “The Pioneer” He’s blazing a trail at a new location for his construction company. A couple weeks ago, I sensed he was a little frustrated and overwhelmed, so I introduced him to a simple, but powerful framework to help him efficiently focus his time on what’s most…
Between April 2006 through January 2011, nearly two point three million construction jobs were wiped out in the United States during the Great Recession. The construction industry has not been able to make up for this loss of skilled labor, and today there’s not only a labor shortage in the field, there’s also a leadership…
Yesterday my son confronted me I was mad at him for doing a poor job on one of his chores. He admitted that he did a poor job, but said that my response had violated my own teaching to him about self-control and not getting angry. Last week was his fourteenth birthday. I do my…
“We all know we are better than our current politics” Jim Mattis In a recent essay published in the Wall Street Journal, former Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis, shares his thoughts on leadership, service, and overcoming political divides. The wisdom he shares is timeless and applicable in many areas, including business, and specifically to leading…
Five Ways to Practice High-Quality Business Development Activity Would you like to discover a powerful insight into how to be successful in construction sales, and five ways you can immediately apply it to win more construction projects? If so, let me tell you about what I did last weekend. On Saturday, one of my friends…
(I adapted this article from a recent podcast. Click this link to check it out) Terrifying artillery bombardments, suffocating poisonous gas, mindless mass attacks, and muddy, waterlogged, rat-infested trenches where millions of men suffered, bled, and died. Winston Churchill, one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known, had personal experience with trenches. He also knew demotion….