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2013 November

The Obstacle of Progress (Part 1)

George Bernard Shaw wrote that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ...

2013 October

Upper Management’s Perspective

Problem solving can oftentimes be very similar to working your way through a maze. In such a case, those who are in the maze would be greatly benefitted by another perspective. This is where upper...

2013 September

The Ugly Side of Beautiful! (Part 6)

Let’s get this done. As we finish with this topic, we’ve concluded that an excellent solution to the lack of skilled labor is training. For those who aren’t able to tap into an apprentice training...

2013 August

The Ugly Side of Beautiful! (Part 5)

Hopefully you’ve been keeping pace with this series and I don’t need to do a lot of review in order to set the stage for the content of this month’s article. If not, you’ll just...

2013 July

The Ugly Side of Beautiful! (Part 4)

For the last few months, I’ve made the case that the lack of skilled labor is a significant problem throughout the industry. Meanwhile, we are facing a tidal wave of work. At least that’s the...

2013 June

The Ugly Side of Beautiful! (Part 3)

So then, here we are with 2013 looking better and 2014 looking better yet. Beautiful, ahhhh … now we can finally sigh with relief. NOT! Houston, we’ve got a problem. What the heck is the...

2013 May

The Ugly Side of Beautiful! (Part 2)

If you read last month’s Management Desk article, bear with me as I repeat some things for the sake emphasis and clarification. I want to re-emphasize the word that I think sums things up when...

2013 April

The Ugly Side of Beautiful!

I used to think I had these downturns figured out. From my perspective as a contractor in California they appeared pretty predictable. They ran on a cycle of about eight to 10 years of good...

2013 March

Game On!

“Continual improvement.” Whoever coined that phrase deserves some credit. Why? Because besides being just another over used, undervalued and too often disregarded phrase, it embodies the essence of doing “great” business. But let’s not talk...