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Brian Gottlieb Receives Remodeling Mastery Award
Presented by industry icon, Mark Richardson, the award celebrated Gottlieb’s extraordinary impact on remodeling
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NARI Renames Awards Program
The awards program has a new name, but continues its tradition of recognizing the best in residential remodeling
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Grace, Growth, and Keeping Your Word: NAHB Remodeler of the Year Elliott Pike
ELM Construction Founder Elliott Pike’s three sources of success, and his road to the National Association of Home Builders' Remodeler of the Year
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Be like Mat: Go big
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Text Mex: Meet ‘em where they are
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Confessions of a bilingual construction guy
His candor surprised me. I’ve never had anyone actually admit it. But there it was. In digital ink on the email in my Inbox. The question that…
The Inverse Golden Rule + 3 CYA tools when working with Hispanics
You know The Golden Rule, right? He who has the gold makes the rules. On the jobsite today, there is an inverse to The Golden Rule: He who has…
“I see dead people” + 3 other common sensibilities
M. Night Shyamalan, the director of The 6th Sense, was opposed to including what has become one of the most memorable movie lines of all-time “I see…
Micro-fluency: Sí se puede!
Working at my second office yesterday (Starbucks), two latino twenty-somethings and their language choices caught my attention. They were jumping…
Excuse me, sir…your PowerPoint sucks
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Guy gets up to give a presentation. Self-deprecating intro. Well-dressed. Strong voice. He’s confident. He’s…
Translation consternation
“I’ve got a 40-page company policy and about 40 Hispanic employees. Any advice when it comes to translation?” This question came at me during the Q…
Catalog ideas; don’t shoot them
Yesterday I attended a Construction and Safety Expo outside Chicago. General contractors, Sub-contractors and Safety Suppliers were dishing on their…
What’s your moon shot?
You probably missed it. Nearly everyone did. At the end of last year Kansas City quietly became the first metro area to be wired with Google Fiber…