As I write this week’s blog on a plane from Detroit to Vegas, I happened upon an article in the Delta in-flight magazine about healthy eating and…

When we talk about sustainable home building we focus on energy efficiency and green. But another level of sustainable building is ensuring that…

The SMART acronym is an excellent way to evaluate your goals and objectives. Are they Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely Specific…

For a little less than two years, I led the 15th largest real estate brokerage firm in the US. It was an interesting departure from the day to day of…

I’ll get right to the point. Today’s business owners have lost a huge amount of loyalty, commitment and productivity from their employees. Leaders in…

During the housing boom, new products were being introduced into the home building market at a staggering rate.According to the Harvard Joint Center…

If you knew that were losing at least $5K per unit due to one single item of waste in your houses, would you do anything about it? How about $10K? …

Disorganized and untidy job sites are covered with destroyed or damaged materials, reflect chaos between trades, reduce productivity and send the…

Headers, headers everywhere! Nearly every builder I have ever worked with (regardless of geography) initially had far too many headers and/or headers…

We spend a lot of time and effort training our teams and developing them in our culture and so the retention and ongoing development of our talent is…