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While seeking employees’ input and buy-in is important, you must be willing to make tough decisions that benefit the customer, the company and the staff.

If you’re trying to run a successful business, I highly recommend you get selective about where you’re trying to end up and which road you choose to get you there.

Construction and maintenance pros, do you have what it takes to takes to excel today? I'm not talking about aggressive cost cutting or crazy-efficient management techniques. Chances are you are already doing those things.

Al Levi could have packed it in, gone to Arizona, and led the good life. After all, he sold his contracting company back when the economy was still vibrant.

The power of building a brand starts with a great name.

Last week I spent a couple days at the Coverings Show in Las Vegas. Usually, I’m very focused at trade shows on meeting readers or advertisers and talking about their specific interests.

In the first part of this blog (“Can Your Employees Be Stealing Your Calls?”) that ran on Feb. 20, I gave you the dire scenario of your own employees siphoning

Yes! And when I hear the pain in the voice of contractors who have fallen prey to their own staff stealing their calls it’s sickening. Even if you haven’t been

The last two years remind me of running in the San Diego Marathon. It was a brutally hot event. At the starting line, race organizers distributed salt packets and issued dire warnings to slow our pace – or face the consequences.

In spite of overly-inflated production budgets, vulgarity or simple sophomoric humor that are the Super Bowl standard fare, there were two spots that did remind floor covering advertisers of what’s important when it comes to advertising, in this writer’s humble opinion.