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Honest wrong beliefs: Sometimes it’s what we know that gets in the way — Lean Tuesday with Scott Sedam
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…
The all American home
When we talk about sustainable home building we focus on energy efficiency and green.
But another level of sustainable building is ensuring…
SMART
The SMART acronym is an excellent way to evaluate your goals and objectives.
Are they Specific, M…
Maximizing your Real Estate Brokers Performance
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…
Business Management
3 Ways to Optimize Employee Performance
It's time to refocus attention on your employees and begin turning your people back into highly productive, committed members of your team
Time for remodelers to innovate is now
During the housing boom, new products were being introduced into the home building market at a staggering rate.
According to the Harvard…
Lean Building
How to Save $5,000 Per Unit
If you knew you were losing about $5K per unit due to just one item of waste in your houses, would you do something about it?
Clean job sites…who cares!?
Disorganized and untidy job sites are covered with destroyed or damaged materials, reflect chaos between trades, reduce productivity and send the…
Exposed: The most common framing mistake in home building, Lean Tuesday with Todd Hallett
Headers, headers everywhere! Nearly every builder I have ever worked with (regardless of geography) initially had far too many headers and/or…
Talent management and best practices
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…