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The Buck Stops at Leadership

Getting results starts with leadership. Leaders should not be afraid to change, innovate, and try new ways of doing business, new project types, new customers, and new markets, and should communicate their exciting vision clearly.

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Make People a Priority

People want to be treated as valuable team members, trained, and have an opportunity to move up.

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Does Your Construction Business Work For You?

To take your business to the next level, you must learn how to be organized, systemized, and trust people to delegate decisions, so you can invest your time on high priority issues.

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What Should Your Overhead Markup Include?

Many contractors don’t know their exact job costs, equipment costs, overhead budget, and how much profit they should make. Without an understanding of your numbers, working hard in a financial vacuum keeps you busy and broke instead of productive and profitable.

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Does Your Timecard Work for You?

If you want to know and track accurate job costs, your timecard can become an important business tool to make you more money. To make this happen, you need to design your timecard to reflect how you do business and match what you want to keep track of.

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Busy and Broke Is Bad Business

Knowing and tracking your numbers must be the number one priority for construction business owners to be successful. Unless your goal is to be busy and broke, you must spend an equal amount of time focused on accounting, financials, and job costs.

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Draft a Winning Playbook

Business is more fun when you manage it like a professional sports team owner or head coach. Every day, ask yourself what decisions need to be made and how would a coach go about making the right decision. In order to win more games than you lose, you need to be working on all of the nine chapters in your playbook, as described above.

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Play Business Like Golf

The key to a good game of business is to shoot for something. Any target is better than no target. Keep your targets simple and clear. Align them toward your top business priorities. Involve everyone and have fun.

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You Can't Get Rich with Your Head in a Ditch

By getting your head out of the ditch, your results can be incredible: higher profit while doing less, more loyal customers, and employees who love to work for your company. You can build a great place to work where people can grow, take responsibility and be accountable to meet your company’s goals.

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