The Thorny Issue of Legacy Employees

If your construction company has been around for a while, you have legacy employees who helped you grow your business but, being brutally honest, don't contribute to your efforts as much today. You may even have employees who can't keep up with all the changes you've...

“What’s Your Biggest Job?”

At the Travelers Leadership Conference, we heard over and over that in 2022 most contractors will be bidding their biggest jobs ever! That set us thinking"¦ What's REALLY your biggest job? Our answer might be different from yours! Please tune in this week as Wayne...

The Five Freedoms

As we head into the July 4th holiday here in the USA, it's an appropriate time to think about what freedom actually means. Our friend Arlin Sorenson had a great discussion on this subject in Oct. 2021, and we present parts of it here. What are "The Five Freedoms,"...

Improving Outcomes with ZERO Increase in Skill

That's a pretty ambitious blog title, isn't it? The idea for this blog comes from the book The Checklist Manifesto by Dr. Atul Gawande. He maintains that the use of simple, concise checklists increases the quality of outcomes in many different industries WITHOUT the...