Building Business

Self-Taught MBA: The Tailgate vs. the Water Cooler
Job-site communication styles don’t readily translate to the office environment. I almost lost my job learning this important fact of life.
Self-Taught MBA: An App to Eliminate Callbacks
By putting installation information at your fingertips, the new app by Construction Instruction helps you get the job done right the first time.
Self-Taught MBA: The Builder’s Briefcase
A briefcase is nothing more than a leather toolbox for your business gear. Here’s my take on the top five tools that belong in that bag.
Self-Taught MBA: Blue Ocean Advantage
Find an uncontested area of the market to ply your business and you’ll have smooth sailing toward success.
Self-Taught MBA: Teaching the Old Dogs New Tricks
Exploiting social media for marketing, while adapting best home-building practices to the digital world, the next generation’s business strategies may teach us old dogs a few new tricks.
Self-Taught MBA: Know the Battlefield
Strategic thinking is essential to success in any highly competitive activity, and the building business qualifies as one. This, the second in our three-part series on strategy, focuses on learning…
Self-Taught MBA: Profiles in Good Business
Profiles of building enterprises that provide valuable insights. Unique business strategies that work for them, and may work for you.
Self-Taught MBA: Strategic Thinking
What makes the move from tradesman to entrepreneur so difficult? To start, the tradesman focuses almost entirely on tactics—the means and methods of good craft and honest work—while the entrepreneur…
Self-Taught MBA: Builder-Office Automation
Nowadays, builder software offers far more than estimating and accounting. We take a close look at what’s available and discuss how you can determine what office automation products provide the…
Self-Taught MBA: Project Management Made Easier
Project management is the skill set at the heart of any contracting business, and technology brings powerful tools to help you to do it better. As we continue looking into…

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