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2020 May

Navigating a Brave New World

By now you’ve seen a gazillion “we’re here to help” articles, emails and social media posts. Sorry for contributing one more to the pile. The ideas below, however, offer practical help at this time of...

2020 April

Suicide in Construction

A friend of mine is a carpenter. He says one day last year, on a lower floor of a 10-story structure in Kansas City, a carpenter gave away his tools to other workers. He made...

2020 March

Social Listening

I’m hearing a lot about prefabrication through industry reports from McKinsey & Co., Dodge Data & Analytics and the Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry. Prefab is spreading quickly, the surveys say.   ...

2020 February

Contractors Bet on Tech

As 2020 began, confidence levels among construction contractors was down, according to industry research. Revenue was up, but optimism about the market took a hit as contractors still couldn’t find enough qualified workers for...

January 2020

Building Customer Loyalty

The construction process is becoming increasingly collaborative. Lots of people in your organization play key roles, and more of your people contribute, for good or bad, to the customer experience.      What does...

2019 December

Life Online in 2069

What’s in store for our digital lives in 50 years? A world far different from today, say soothsayers surveyed recently by Pew Research Center.      While our industry focuses on solid objects—structures made...

2019 November

Reinvent Your Firm

For four decades, professor David Ulrich of the University of Michigan and associated researchers have been trying to understand how organizations reinvent themselves. Ulrich and his team study how firms respond quickly to changing...

2019 October

Is Your Firm Resilient?

You can read lots of articles in the media right now about the possibility of a recession. Worrywarts key in on headlines and cry wolf: An unending trade war with China? Uh-oh! Recession. A...

2019 September

Get a Coach

The 2019 FMI Coaching Study from management consulting firm FMI confirms that executive coaching is highly effective and sought after by many progressive leaders.      While some might see coaching as remedial to...