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“Lawyers celebrating shit” and other ways to get more of what you want.
At a Safety Spanish workshop in Dallas last week, I witnessed something I hadn’t seen before. TEXO, the construction association housing both AGC + ABC efforts in Texas, was hosting the training....
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Haunting Dreams en Español… one customer at a time.
Alcohol has its place in the creative process. Where, exactly, that is—well, that depends on the result. Sometimes you need a little distance from your new babe to determine if it’s ugly or...
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It’s about retention, stupid.
“Do you know how much it costs our business to hire 800 people, so we can staff 400?” Unsure if it was a rhetorical question, yet certain my initial thought—”a lot”—was a poor response to...
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Fried Chicken and Meth: a leadership essay
The wife and I are on the bleeding edge of pop culture—for 2012. The past few months we’ve been chowing down at the all-you-can-eat Netflix buffet of Breaking Bad, the best show on television (ca....
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Labor shortage now? Ha! Just wait.
I have an older brother. He’s a tall, skinny redhead like me, except better looking. After graduating from Illinois State University in ’99, he went to work for a home builder in Colorado. The...
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Red is the new black.
Bloomberg sounded like The Gotham Gringo. Slick Willie (Bill Clinton) came off . . . unslick. Obama was polished, but less than authentic. George Bush sounded like a goofball, yet oddly authentic....
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Bennis, Galaxy Quest and Improving Your IQ
The difference between leaders and managers are “the differences between those who master the context and those who surrender to it.” – Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader I recently conducted Red...
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Labor Shortages: from Chinese Exclusion to “Operation Wetback”
Let’s start with The Chinese Exclusion Act. That’s as good a start as any . . . In 1882 President Chester A. Arthur (yes, he was a U.S. President) enacted the first law prohibiting a single ethnic...
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What Your Interns Saw.
Interns. Over the last 15 years, I’ve worked with some memorable ones. One walked off the 2nd floor of a home in production (he bounced and was miraculously unbroken). I caught one sleeping in a...
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The Labor Shortage: 9 Ways to “close the back door.”
Like the script on your rear view mirror, the construction industry’s labor shortage is closer than it may appear. The Associated General Contractors (AGC) found that 84% of commercial firms...
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