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Recognition Isn’t Optional
When effort goes unnoticed, performance dips, initiative fades—and eventually, good people move on. Recognition isn’t pizza parties or swag—it’s timely, specific acknowledgment linked directly to results, and it’s the leadership tool that keeps your team motivated, engaged, and pushing forward every day.
Self-Advocacy Without Ego
When Fulton Cure found himself drowning in responsibilities and too proud to ask for help, his Senior PM’s blunt reminder—“You waited until you were burned out to speak up”—became a turning point. In Self-Advocacy Without Ego, Fulton shows how owning your value and communicating needs clearly (without drama or defensiveness) builds trust, speeds growth, and keeps you from hitting the breaking point. Discover the simple habits that turn respectful honesty into a powerful leadership skill.
Purpose Over Pay
Learn how intrinsic motivation—pride in quality work, real responsibility, and seeing your projects change communities—becomes the ultimate retention strategy for today’s jobsite. Discover actionable tips on connecting day-to-day tasks to a bigger mission and empowering your people to lead with purpose.
The Future of Construction Management
In today’s construction world, digital-native Millennials and Gen Z are stepping into leadership roles as the Old School builders—Gen X and Boomers—retire, creating a critical skills gap. Discover why the future of your business depends on fusing hands-on field expertise with tech-savvy management, and how mentoring, servant-leadership training, and field-first onboarding can bridge generations and build lasting growth.
Why Silence Is a Superpower for Leaders
In the high-stakes world of construction leadership, the most powerful tool often isn’t a plan—it’s your ability to listen. Discover how pausing to ask the right questions and truly hearing your team can build trust, prevent costly mistakes, and elevate jobsite performance under pressure.
Are you standing in the way of your business strategy?
Impostor syndrome holds back more construction leaders than you’d think—and it’s killing their strategy.
Learn the 3 mindset shifts that help owners dream bigger, lead bolder, and finally get out of their own way.
The Hard Truth About Retaining Your Top 1% — and How to Nail It
Top talent doesn’t just do the job—they transform it.
The secret to keeping your highest performers? Don’t wait until they’re halfway out the door. Recognize their value, invest in their growth, and build a future they can see themselves in.
What Construction Taught Me About Character
After four decades in the field, I’ve learned the toughest part of construction isn’t the work—it’s who you are while doing it.
These five traits won’t just help you build great projects—they’ll help you build a legacy worth remembering.
Transforming into an Executive
Being tapped for an Executive role is exhilarating—and terrifying. You’ll work harder than you ever have, face self-doubt at every turn, and learn that true leadership means staying flexible in the face of change and speaking up when it matters. Nail those two habits—grace under pressure and a willingness to voice your ideas—and you’ll not only survive your promotion, you’ll thrive in it. Go get it!
Creating a Culture of Accountability—Without Micromanaging
You don’t have to choose between micromanaging and checked-out teams—real accountability starts with crystal-clear expectations, regular checkpoints, and coaching-style conversations that build ownership, not fear. Model the behavior yourself, celebrate wins loudly, and you’ll transform hovering into trust and neglect into excellence.
Succession Questions (Imagined and) Answered
Succession planning isn’t some distant, back-burner project—it’s the engine that keeps your business running long after you’ve moved on. In this imaginary Q&A, I tackle the questions I hear most: How do you find time to think about tomorrow when today’s emergencies never end? What really matters when plotting an exit strategy? And how do you get out of your own way so your successors can take the reins? Read on to build a company that thrives with—or without—you.
Email Management Strategies Using Microsoft Outlook
Boost your productivity with Outlook’s 3 R rule, flags & categories, calendar/task conversions, Microsoft To Do workflows, focus time strategies, and agenda-driven meetings to conquer your inbox and get more done.
The Strategic Planning Easy Button
Contractors: build a simple 1-year strategic plan in under 4 hours—craft your Vision, set realistic financial targets, sketch your org chart, plan hires, and define quarterly priorities for immediate impact.
Is It Time to Rethink What Makes a ‘Tough’ Leader?
Forget barking orders—today’s toughest leaders stay calm under pressure, genuinely listen, own their mistakes, and coach their teams to build both people and projects with lasting strength.
Recurring Revenue: The King of Revenue
Stabilize your contracting business with recurring revenue: learn how service contracts, MSAs, and proactive account strategies can smooth out revenue cycles, boost confidence, and drive lasting growth.
What do you want, anyway?
The answer to every strategic question is simple: it depends on what you want. When you know your true goal—whether it’s staying small and profitable or growing into an industry giant—your path becomes clear.
A Crafty Construction Business Strategy & Strategic Planning Guide.
Figure out how you win. It’s not enough to start a business. It’s not enough to say you’re different and better than your competition. You have to actually be different…
Using Failure as a Teacher
Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who oversaw vast Roman building projects, reminds us: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” In other words, failure isn’t an endpoint—it’s a detour pointing us toward improvement.
The Hidden Power of Trust
To me, the foundational element is care. Care is your ability to put the interests of others at the front of your mind. You are not focused solely on what is best for you.
The Hidden Costs of Poor Business Development
In construction, relationships are everything. Long-term connections with clients, subcontractors, and industry peers often outweigh transactional sales…