Hiring Veterans

By Josh White Of the 18.2 million veterans currently residing in the U.S., around 621,000 receive disability insurance or pension payments. Sadly, veterans with disabilities...

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”...
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Hot Leader, Hot Team

The CEO of a software firm was tasked with a major change initiative after a large and lengthy acquisition. The board of directors wanted...

Renting Wheel Loaders Makes Good Business Sense

Whether you’ve won a bid for a short-term project that may not justify the purchase of a wheel loader, or you’ve exhausted your annual...

Be The Leader

When asked about the toughest part of a job, there is one answer that stands above the rest: dealing with people. Employees often get...

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...

Competitive Edge

In 2022, the construction industry experienced headwinds, backwinds, and crosswinds. The Inflation Reduction Act includes hundreds of billions for clean energy, transportation, and manufacturing....

Vertical Freedom

Vertical Freedom, the award winning, film festival-recognized, feature length documentary movie, produced by Storybuilt Media and NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, is now...

Pushing Toward Diversification

Don’t let the construction off-season throw off profits. Contractors avoid the winter blues when they diversify their businesses by offering snow and ice removal...

Simplify Construction Planning for On-Time Success

Construction project planning is complicated. From creating a schedule to accounting for multiple deadlines to juggling suppliers and subcontractors, construction project managers are constantly...