How to Maximize Your Direct Report’s Performance and Make Your Leadership More Effective
In my garage, I have an orange toolbox that an old friend, Stan, gave me. Stan was a great guy. A self-made, first-generation immigrant to the United States. He owned an apartment building in Berkeley and did the vast majority of the maintenance work himself. He gave me the toolbox as a gift, and as […]
Read morePractical Ways Young Construction Managers Can Become Effective Leaders
Between April 2006 through January 2011, nearly two point three million construction jobs were wiped out in the United States during the Great Recession. The construction industry has not been able to make up for this loss of skilled labor, and today there’s not only a labor shortage in the field, there’s also a leadership […]
Read moreWhat a Teenager Taught Me About Leadership
Yesterday my son confronted me I was mad at him for doing a poor job on one of his chores. He admitted that he did a poor job, but said that my response had violated my own teaching to him about self-control and not getting angry. Last week was his fourteenth birthday. I do my […]
Read moreLeadership Lessons from a Lifetime of Service
“We all know we are better than our current politics” Jim Mattis In a recent essay published in the Wall Street Journal, former Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis, shares his thoughts on leadership, service, and overcoming political divides. The wisdom he shares is timeless and applicable in many areas, including business, and specifically to leading […]
Read moreHow to Succeed in Construction Sales
Five Ways to Practice High-Quality Business Development Activity Would you like to discover a powerful insight into how to be successful in construction sales, and five ways you can immediately apply it to win more construction projects? If so, let me tell you about what I did last weekend. On Saturday, one of my friends […]
Read moreBuild a Great Construction Business, Have a Big Impact
This is a transcript of Episode 29 of Construction Genius HOW TO DO WELL IN BUSINESS, SO YOU CAN DO GOOD IN THE WORLD. I interview Sean Cook, President of Cook Engineering, Inc. Click this link to check out the episode Sean [00:00:00] Business is simple. You answer the phone when somebody calls you. You […]
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