Yes - job sites are dirty, although maybe I should have said job sites are 'messy' so that I could limit the number of visits I get from people looking for "dirty sites". Trying to manipulate the … [Read more...]
Job Site Culture and Pride
. I had an interesting conversation with a contractor the other day - it centered on job site culture and how to create the right sort. I'm not talking about Fight Club sort of culture or stuff found … [Read more...]
The Blame Game – Job Site Conflict Resolution
. I was once told by my father-in-law that I would make a great contractor. Considering that he is a construction manager himself and has run projects as large as $730,000,000 (yes - that's closing … [Read more...]
The Art of Residential Construction
One of the neatest tricks about modern residential design is that everything looks so obvious, clean and organized ... and it takes a lot of work and coordination to make things look easy. I … [Read more...]
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins are wrath, greed, sloth, lust, envy, gluttony and pride. Pride ... Should it really one of the 7 Deadly sins? ‘Pride’ as define by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as: a) the … [Read more...]