Customer Relationships
In this economy, do you feel like you have to be in 1000 different places at once? If a customer or prospective customer has an opportunity, you want to be…
For the past couple of years, we’ve started a blog for each of our large projects. The premise is simple: once a week, a designated person from the field office…
Read MoreIn this economy, do you feel like you have to be in 1000 different places at once? If a customer or prospective customer has an opportunity, you want to be…
As important as office presence may be, I’m a firm believer in pockets of downtime. A break from email and task-oriented duties, however small, always brings me back to a…
Three years ago we decided to plant a few tomato plants beside our office. That small patch of land has become much more. Our plot has grown into a full…
Thanks to several social media tools, I have been able to stay connected with increased frequency than before web 2.0. A couple of years ago we started using several of…
It’s easy to get bogged down with the day-to-day activities and then add in family and just life in general. We lose contact with those that are an import part…
Making mistakes is common for everyone. We all make them. Admitting to mistakes is not always an immediate reaction. Instead, many try to redirect the blame to others or…
Right-sizing, why did I not have this in my vocabulary before ’07? Makes sense. We are constructors of buildings and handle the civil management of projects, but the bottom line…
Last week we finished our United Way campaign in the city but it was not without a real push by its leadership and the United Way. Someone said that while…
When the first Tour de France bicycle race was held in 1903; Maurice Garin, the winner, clocked in nearly three hours ahead of the second-place finisher, Hippolyte Auconturier. This year,…