workforce growth

Workforce Development

By Bart Gragg and Peter Krammer Workforce development — recruiting, training, promoting, and retaining—could be a complex system for company leadership to build and maintain....

Detection for Protection

In recent years, contractors’ builder’s risk insurance deductibles and premiums have risen as much as two or three times. Much of this is due...
leadership

Leave a Leadership Legacy

In the Gallup book, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow, Tom Rath writes, “The most extraordinary leaders do not see...

The Shifting Sands of Employee Motivation

I recently attended a speech by best-selling author Daniel Pink1 in which he summarized research on shifts in employee motivators. The old “if-then motivators”...

Utilizing the 5Ss: Part 2

There are many benefits that your organization can reap from implementing the 5S program. Originating from a Japanese focus on organizing and bringing orderliness...
financial executive

The Compliant Client System

Financial executives are valued for their attention to detail. They are relied upon to prepare accurate financial statements and to help strategize financial decisions...

More Than The Minimum

Most construction customers don’t really know how to compare the difference between good or poor-quality workmanship. They ask for contractor bids to build a...
OEM and Aftermarket Parts

Blurring the Lines Between OEM and Aftermarket Parts

Over the past 60 years, the acceptance of replacement parts suppliers for engines used in the heavy-duty construction industry has evolved significantly. Today, the...

Change, Challenges, Choices

If there’s one word that captures the essence of what is occurring in business today, it’s “change.” It’s most definitely “business NOT as usual.”...

Permit Delays

Building permit problems can delay new warehouse construction or distribution center retrofits by weeks or months. Bringing in an experienced warehouse storage rack supplier...