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Strategic Magic
UConn is neither the biggest nor the most prestigious college in the Big East Conference, yet they have just won the national basketball championship for the second time in two years. What is perhaps even more remarkable is that this comparatively mid-size school has...
We Interrupt Our Regular Programming…
...to bring you this bulletin: A solution to the construction industry's shortage of skilled labor has been found... According To The Wall Street Journal... "Of all the decisions that 18-year-olds can make about their future, one is becoming more popular: going to...
Winning the War
Construction professionals have a vision of where they would like their company to go, but they’re usually so busy with their day-to-day business they don't often think about it. They have a vague long view of their company that usually looks something like this:...
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going You’re Probably Not Going to Get There
This simple ancient Chinese proverb says enough. Unless a contractor knows where he or she is trying to take their business, they probably won't get it there. Unfortunately, many of the contractors I am familiar with are not strategic thinkers or planners who have...
Dominoes
A successful contractor recently told me: "I find that running a contracting company is like playing with Dominoes. In this business, one thing just leads to another. Oh, we try to plan for the future but then reality rears its ugly head, and we start reacting rather...
Growing Out of “Closely Held”
The U. S. construction industry is made up of over a million closely held or family-owned businesses. Only 24 or .000024 % of them are owned by the public and traded on an exchange. That is an astonishing but revealing statistic. Only 24 construction companies match...
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