Why Understanding is Critical to BUILDing a Successful Construction Business
Because Your Company is Too Important to Just Roll the Dice Why is it that people operating construction companies are willing to gamble with their business? This random hit and miss business model is an all-too-common practice in the construction industry. Somewhere along the way as we grow into the routine of life and business, […]
How Do You Know If You’re Heading in the Right Direction or NOT?
When it Comes to Clarity of Life Purpose, This Can Be a Hard Question to Answer Too often, we find ourselves going through life without really knowing where we’re headed or why. This may be because of where we were born and raised, our family and community dynamic, or an unexpected situation in which we […]
What’s the Number One Problem Construction Companies Struggle With?
It Would Be So Much Easier If There Was Only One Problem to Deal With The construction industry is a complicated business and is only getting more so in today’s fast-paced world. If you’re working in construction, or know someone who is, you know how overwhelming it can be trying to keep up with the […]
Clear Communication Can be a Tricky Thing to Get Right
There’s a Reason We Have Two Ears and One Mouth Too often we think we know what some is saying without bothering to even listen. Good communication takes twice as much listening. This is why we have two ears and only one mouth. We’ve seen a lot of miscommunication in Luke and Acts over the […]
Getting Signed Construction Proposals, What’s the Best Number for You?
How to Know What Your Number Is and What You Should Do with It I have been reading Simon Sinek’s book Start with Why this past week. In it, he discusses how customers will do business with companies and not even really know why. He says that it often has more to do with trust […]
What Does Living with Boldness Look Like?
How We Do it is Just as Important as Doing it Being bold can be perceived as being pushy and overbearing…like being a bully. I think this is why many of us are scared to say what we think. In reality, these two things are quite different. A bully is someone who seeks to intimidate […]
Poor Communication is the Number One Reason for Disagreements, Part 2
Written Communication is Really the Only Way to Avoid This Problem I have written multiple times about communication and the problems that come from the lack of communication. Most of the time this has been focused on communication between construction contractors and customers. This is certainly a problem, but can also be a problem between […]
Peter Becomes Bold and We Need to Do the Same
The First Next Step in Building God’s Kingdom Here on Earth Last week we discussed Jesus’ earthly journey coming to an end and how Peter got scared and denied knowing Jesus. Admitting to knowing and following Jesus can be a scary thing still for us today. I also told you that Jesus’ death wasn’t the […]
What is it About TOOLS That Building Contractors Love So Much?
Wielding a Power Tool Gives Us a Sense of Control and Respect Last week we discussed how to build the construction company of your dreams with a plan and the right tools. We talked about how scary it is to step out of your comfort zone and try something new. We also discussed how this […]
Peter Says He Doesn’t Know Jesus…What Are You Going to Say?
Going Through the Last Days of Jesus’ Life Sorry about being a day late getting this post published. I would like to blame it on this being a short holiday week, but that wouldn’t be totally true. The short week may have played a small part, but it’s more to do with simply being busy. […]