by Wayne Rivers | Oct 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the most venerated and revered companies in the world is having a very difficult go of things about now. Disney, with all its talent and resources, has made a hash of their CEO succession planning. CNBC featured a long, detailed story about this calamity in...
by Dennis Engelbrecht | Oct 18, 2023 | Digging Deeper
Construction is, for the most part, a pride-filled world (and we mean pride in a good, healthy sense, of course). When there is tangible proof of the contributions you and your team make to your communities, that lends itself to a healthy culture of proud...
by Wayne Rivers | Oct 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Entrepreneur magazine recently posted an article detailing characteristics of people who had achieved the status some of us dreamed of as young people – becoming a millionaire! DISCLAIMER: Life isn’t about money (did we need to say this at all?) It’s about the journey...
by Dennis Engelbrecht | Oct 12, 2023 | Digging Deeper
The U.S. national basketball team gathered some the very best professional players together to compete in an international tournament. These were some of the best athletes in the history of the sport; the talent on this team was absolutely the best among the competing...
by Wayne Rivers | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
The question of whether virtual work is superior to in-person work has been answered once and for all! Zoom, the company most closely identified as the one which enabled the US economy to stay alive in 2020, now requests that their employees return to the office at...
by Dennis Engelbrecht | Oct 4, 2023 | Digging Deeper
We’ve all seen ballgames where the momentum shifts from one team to another and seems like an unstoppable force with a mysterious will all its own. What is momentum? Is it even a thing in business as in sports? How do we get it, and how do we sustain it? Tune in this...
by Wayne Rivers | Oct 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Have you ever heard of The American Time Use Survey? We hadn’t either until we came across an article from Flowing Data detailing some key takeaways from the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey. So which industries are evaluated as the happiest? Least happy? Tune in...
by Dennis Engelbrecht | Sep 27, 2023 | Digging Deeper
No contractor wants to end up in the headlines because of a dispute over a project gone bad. And yet Dennis found three separate instances in one week where parties had disputed over various contractual provisions. No one wins when disagreements over contracts end up...
by Wayne Rivers | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Around Labor Day, Wayne was watching the U.S. Open tennis tournament and caught sight of an engraved plaque that competitors walked by upon their exits to the stadium court. It said, “Pressure is a privilege.” That’s a curious statement… Where did it come from, and...
by Dennis Engelbrecht | Sep 20, 2023 | Digging Deeper
FBI’s Doug McCright says that every decision in business is a trade-off. There are no perfect answers – only trade-offs between better or worse. Having a partner(s) in business has many pros, but it also has cons. Please tune in this week as Dennis examines the up-...
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