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The Change Model (Lesson #1 from Wayne’s New Book)
Strategic Planning (Lesson #2 from Wayne’s New Book)
6 Steps to Fixing BROKEN Decision-Making
Tom Brady, the New England Patriots, Winston Churchill, the Fat Lady, and What It Means to Be a Winner
Genghis Khan, Preconceived Notions, and Your Family Business
Avoiding Complacency in Your Family Business
Should We Have Different Rules for Family in the Family Business?
Striking a Balance in Your Estate Planning
There Are No Secrets in a Family Business
What are your two most critical projects?
6 Steps to Better Time Management (Including the 4 D’s)
A Fish Rots from the Head Down
Your Family Business is a System
Every Great Why Needs a Great How
Holding People Accountable Is Hard Work!
The ABCs of Talent Management
Family Harmony Requires Effort
Focus on Three Things
How To Make $5 Million Per Hour
Your Choices Reveal Who You Are
Learning How to Avoid The Gap
The Family Tax
The Broken Windows Theory
How to Take Time Off
The Difference Between Accounting and Finance
The Difference Between Expenses and ROI
The Three and Ten Rules (Avoiding Complacency in Your Family Business)
Do You Have a 21st Century Buy-Sell Agreement?
Your Spouse Is CRITICAL To Successful Family Business Planning
There Are Only Four Ways To Transition Your Family Business
How To Do Less In Your Family Business
Hard Work – An Essential Family Business Value
The Value of Pain and Suffering
Your Family Is Dysfunctional
Your Son or Daughter Is Not a Good Fit (Maybe)
Increase Your Next Gen Commitment
Four Ways to Get Your People to Leave
What do Your Employees Want?
Do You Have a Succession Plan?
Is Your Team Holding You Back?
Intelligence is Overrated! What Do Your Successors Need In Order to be Successful?
Why Are Successful Family Business Leaders Resented?
Making Your Vision Stick
Does “Consensus” Really Mean “Unanimous” in a Family Business?
How Long Does it Take to Distinguish a PROSPERING Business from a STRUGGLING One?
Happy New Year! A Look Ahead.
New Year Resolutions and What To Do Next
The Magic Bullet
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
How To Talk To Your Business Family
The Two Secrets for Achieving Tremendous Success in Your Small Business
The Missing Piece in Succession Planning for Family Businesses
The Top 9 Reasons Why Family Businesses Fail To Do Succession Planning
The #1 Challenge for Family Business Leaders
How Do You Know You Need A Family Business Consultant?
How Frequent Is CONFLICT In Family Businesses?
Is The Next Generation Ready To Take Ownership?
Do Family-Owned Businesses Underperform Non-Family Multi-Owner Systems?
Giving Back Or Doing Good?
How CEOs Spend Their Days And What Makes Them Truly Successful
Redefining Productivity In Your Family Business
The Happiness Hypothesis
Are Family Business Leaders Successful Because They Are Nice or Nice Because They Are Successful?
What Represents FAILURE In A Family Business
Your Top Problem Isn’t What, It Is “Who”
Your Family Business Legacy Is Bigger Than One Individual
How To Improve Morale In Your Family Business
If Everyone Is Responsible, No One Is
The ONE PAGE Business Plan
When Is The Right Time To Do Family Business Planning?
The Seeds Of A Company’s Destruction Are Sown In Good Times
The Line Between Personal And Business Has Been OBLITERATED
Working Smart Means You Won’t Have To Work So Hard
80% Of Deaths On Mt. Everest Occur On The Way Down
How To Become Immediately Smarter
Which Is Better – A Performance Culture Or A Growth Culture
Why Doesn’t Every Family Business Leader Have A Great Administrative Assistant?
You Don’t Have To Be “The Answer”
Why Is Bad Behavior Tolerated In Family Business?
How To Immediately Become A Better Leader
Why Does Consulting Work?
The Forest and the Trees
Selling Your Family Business – Sequential Selling vs. Parallel Selling
No Man’s Land
When is “Enough” Enough?
Deciding Not To Decide
The Rock Band and The Family Business
Why Am I So Busy?
Leadership: The Ultimate Differentiator
How to MULTIPLY Your Efforts – and Results
Appreciating Our Blessings
How “Structure” Saved a Company
Leadership Is an Art
7 Habits of UNSUCCESSFUL Leaders
Make Your Meetings More EFFECTIVE
I Felt Like I Had A Second Job!
The Top 6 Trends Shaping Family Businesses in 2019
You’ve Got Mail
Where Does Morale Come From?
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
The Three Kinds of Family Business Decisions
Three Ways You May Be Hurting Your Employees’ Productivity
What is Psychological Safety?
Does Working Hard REALLY Pay Off?
What Do You Need To CLEAN UP?
Four Fatal Flaws in Family Business Estate Planning
A Shot Across My Bow
It’s Hard to Argue with Success
Talent, Brains, or Hard Work – What’s the Secret of PERFORMANCE?
The FIVE MANDATORY Things You Need if You Want to SELL Your Business
How To Get Your Projects Done On Time and On Budget
Family Business Lessons From GE’s Harsh Decline
What Leaders DON’T DO Is Just As Important As What They DO
BUSYNESS is a Substitute for Performance!
Why Won’t Employees Just CHANGE?
Debunking Leadership Myths
Successful, NOT Sustainable
Five Tips for Running Better Meetings
Trust: The Key to Job Site Success
Planning to Make DECISIONS
Take a Military Approach at the Job Site
Exciting Announcement!
LEAN vs. SHAME
Attracting and Retaining Millennials
Tracking Days Gained And Lost
The Five Advisors You MUST Have In Your Family Business
Leveraging Your Most Knowledgeable People
Tom Petty’s Family Battles Over His Estate
Estimating Scope Gaps
What Percentage of Family Businesses Have Succession Plans in Place?
Bid Success Analysis
The Secret to Growing Your Business
Find Three Advantages
Why Do Most US Businesses Stay Under $1 Million in Revenue?
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know!
Your Professional Decline Is Coming MUCH Sooner Than You Think!
Late Career Shifts and Transitions
Queen Elizabeth’s Succession Plan
Getting Bid Coverage
Last few seats remaining! Reserve YOURS Now!
The Significance of Technology in Strategic Planning
Why You Never Seem to Get It All Done
Incentives – And the Law of Unintended Consequences
Why is TRANSITION Such A Dirty Word?
Bleeding Edge vs. Leading Edge
Five Tips from Google on Being a Great Boss
Doing Drawing Reviews the RIGHT Way
Everyone Learns From Their Mistakes, But Can We Learn From Successes Too?
Do Three Things Well!
Focus on Processes, Not Outcomes
At the End of the Game, the King and the Pawn Go Back in the Same Box
What Do Wealthy People REALLY Look Like?
Culture at the Jobsite
HELP! What Do We Do?
Be Where Your Feet Are!
Exploding the Long Work Hours Myth
Choosing the Right Successor
Which is More Important for Success – IQ or EQ?
Using a Punch List EFFECTIVELY!
Survivorship Bias
The Paradox of Perspective
What Outdated Beliefs Are Stunting Your Growth?
Groom if You Want to Grow Your People!
The Very Best Employee Incentive Program
The Missing Element in Business Development
Develop Your High Potential People
Having Tough Conversations
An Unbelievable FREE Family Business Resource
Drive vs. Greed
Safety is a Value, Production is a Goal
Setting SMART Goals
Start Every Conversation with a Personal Question
Why Should You Join a Peer Group?
How to Have Greater Impact in Your Meetings
Making Better – and Faster! – Decisions
The Value of a Spring Day
The First Night of Sleep is on Me, But the Second is on You!
Act On the Important
We Need a MAJOR REDESIGN of Life
Lessons From <em>The Infinite Game</em>
The Golden State Warriors and the Detroit Pistons
Building Relationships
What’s Your Leadership Style?
Selling Value vs. Fee
When You Attend a Convention, Be Intentional
EVERYTHING is a Win-Win
What is the BEST TYPE of CEO?
Measurement as Support
What Four Factors Make a Business Successful?
Never Take Employees for Granted
Calm is Contagious
What’s Next?
E+R=O (Event + Response = Outcome)
Now for Some Good News!
Don’t Settle for the Ordinary
The Three Kinds of Crisis Leaders
The Lean Builder
15 Things That Could Change – and Three That Will Not
The Power of Peers
Plans Are Useless, But Planning is Indispensable
Running Work Profitably
Leadership That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Have Your Employees’ Backs
The 11 Rules for Business Texting
Articulate Your Vision
Words of Wisdom from Queen Elizabeth
Go – No Go Decisions
The Value of a Sanity Check
Value Added Leadership
Four Keys to Leading in Uncertain Times
Untapped Human Potential
Carroll Shelby: “Always Think How Grateful You Should Be”
Progress Principle
Four Ways An Occasional Disruption Might Actually Be Good for Us
The Transactional vs. The Purpose Driven Organization
Expectations Setting
Succession – How to Back Away
Dwight Eisenhower, Common Sense, and Leadership
Two Heads Are Better Than One
Ted Williams Final at Bat – A Family Business Lesson
Purpose Driven Organizational Chart
Hiring and Retaining Based on Your Company Culture
Late Project Delivery
The Positive Planning Process
Right and Wrong Reasons for Growth
What Is Transferable Value?
Glorify the Field
My Dad Lets Me Run 75% of the Business…
Importance of Purpose in Today’s Trying Times
Are You a Bad Boss?
Adding Value to Those You Serve
Returning to the Office – or Not?
Make Sure Your Customer Sleeps Well at Night
Classic Family Business Estate Planning Mistakes
Delegation – A Critical Leadership Skill
Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First
Five Temptations of a CEO
Why You Need to Communicate MORE Now
Building a House of Trust
How Do You Know If You Have a Great Team?
Breaking Down the Conflict
The Experience Economy
The Anchor in the Storm
Unique Ability
What Gets Measured Gets DONE
Lou Holtz’s Three Rules and Three Questions
Mega Trends and their Impact on Construction Industry
Three Shocking Statistics
COVID-19 Impact on Productivity in Construction
Sharpening Your Vision
The Top Three Reasons Contractors Fail
Four Things That Leaders & CEOs Should Be Doing Right Now
Culture of Urgency and Accountability
Four Things That Leaders & CEOs Should NOT Be Doing Right Now
Incentivizing vs. Motivating
Think Before You Respond
Do the Right Thing
The Value of “Pre-Mortems”
Jobs Catastrophe
How Leaders Can Increase Connection
Don’t Downsize! RIGHTSIZE!
It’s a Wonderful Life
Culture of Blame
Why We Need to Stand Up for Free Enterprise
Effective Communication
New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work – Here Is An Alternative
Project Managers Who Don’t Get Jobs Done
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Standing Out to Customers
Should You Get Rid of Your Headquarters?
Turning Information To Knowledge
Building Accountability Into Your Organization
The Experience Economy
The Cobra Effect and The Law of Unintended Consequences
Are Your Meetings INTENTIONAL?
Manage Your Perfections, Not Failures
Today’s Estimate
Tom Brady and Creative Destruction
Attitude is Everything
The Streetlight Effect
Get Everyone on the Same Page
Remote Work is Here to Stay!
How Do You Keep Your Team Motivated?
What Fundamentals Must Be Present for Business Success?
Keeping Your Brand Promise
Want a Crystal Ball to Peer into the Future?
Positives from the Pandemic
Why Are Soft Skills the Hardest?
Warren Buffett’s Formula for Success
The Paradox of Change
Questions are the Answer
Making Strategy Real and Actionable
Customer Quality Assurance
NOT Time Management: PROTECT Your Time
Moments That Define Culture
What’s the True Family Business Survival Rate?
Can You Predict the Source of Delay?
The One Essential For CEOs Facing The Worst
Five Phrases of Emotional Intelligence
<em>12 Rules for Life – An Antidote to Chaos</em>
That’s The Way We Have Always Done It!
Boom Times and Contractor Business Succession
Lessons Learned from Project Projections
Are You a Firefighter or a Strategic Leader?
Honor the Field
Is The Customer Always Right?
The Value Pyramid
Deciding How to Decide – The Eisenhower Matrix
SWOT for Your PMs
Life is Too Short
Stay Out of Court!
If You’re the Lifeblood of Your Company, You’ve Doomed It to Failure!
The New Abnormal – Preconstruction
Is Being CEO Hazardous To Your Health?
The New Abnormal – Making Projects Come In on Time
The Best Leadership Presentation I Have Ever Seen
The New Abnormal – Risk Management
If You Spend Time Performing, You Need to Invest Time in Recovering
The New Abnormal – Managing Pipeline and Resource Schedules
Bet on Talent – How To Create a Remarkable Culture That Wins the Hearts of Customers
Truly Great Culture – Leadership
“Change Is Fragile, and It Must Be Protected”
Truly Great Culture – Where Is the Heart of Your Company?
GRIT – The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Truly Great Culture – Values Are at the Core
“There Isn’t a Labor Shortage, There Is a Shortage of Good Construction Companies”
Truly Great Culture – Understanding Why
How to Determine If You’re a Bad Boss
Preconstruction – The New Differentiator
Four Steps to Better Business Decisions
It Really Is All About People!
Two “New” Tools for Winning the War for Talent
Trying to Stay One Step Ahead
What Is the “Age of Truth,” and What Can Contractors Do to Get Ahead?
Tapping Institutional Knowledge
13 Steps to a Powerful Executive Succession
Become a Complete and Respected Construction Professional
The Power of Mission Statements
Getting the Most Out of Your Community Development Program
Seven Tips for Asking Great Questions
The Biggest Problem Facing the Construction Industry
Guidelines for Successful Family Transition in Construction (and most other industries too!)
Never a Better Time for Strategic Planning!
The Six Magic Questions
Engage Your Top Team
Who Are America’s Millionaires?
Passion and Pride
The Seven Benefits of Strategic Planning
Tips for Better Communication
Does Culture REALLY Eat Strategy for Breakfast?
Succession – Now Is The Time
“The Great Resignation” and What to Do About It
Learn and Adopt LEAN
All Leaders Have Flaws
Up Your Risk Management Game
Three Disconnects That May Be Holding You Back
The Power of the Handshake
Trust: Your Most Valuable Asset
What Employees Want vs. What Employers Want
It’s a Wonderful Life
It’s a New Year! Now What Do I Do?
Building High Trust Teams in a Low Touch World
A Key Planning Component – The SWOT Analysis
Learning from Failure
Gratitude As a Strategic Advantage
The Power of Vision
Is Business Development All About Relationship?
It’s All About “˜Mindset’
How to Maintain and IMPROVE Your Culture in The New Normal
The Art of Giving Good Feedback
Running Better Meetings
Quit Competing For Work!
Where Should CEOs Focus in Tumultuous Times?
There a Persistent Labor Shortage – What Do You Do About It?
How Do You Know If Your Company Is At Risk?
Getting the Work Done
How Much is Too Much? How Big is Too Big?
Drive Out Waste
What Is “Mismatch Theory,” and What Has It Got To Do With Us?
Chain of Command
The Goodfellow Brothers’ Three Rules for Family Business Success
Make the Most of Your Technology!
The 2004 Boston Red Sox and the Importance of CHEMISTRY
Developing Habits That Stick
The Three Common Elements to Successful Onboarding
Coach K’s Leadership Lessons
The Best Teams Hold THEMSELVES Accountable
Combatting The Great Resignation
Soar to Your Strengths
Build The Backlog
Why Do People Constantly Look in the Rear View Mirror?
The Top Habits of Successful Project Managers
If You Want to Stay Relevant…
Re-recruit Your Employees
What Are The Two Most Costly Mistakes CEOs Make?
What Are the Five Top Habits of Great Superintendents?
If You’re Not Growing, You’re Dying!
Collaboration is the #1 Skill Necessary for Construction Success
The Top Five Reasons People Quit
Selecting and Winning the Right Work
Three Tips for Keeping Your Mission Front and Center
Focus on CLIENTS, Not Just Projects
Are Happy Contractors BETTER Contractors?
The Importance of a Great Go-No Go Strategy
The Seven Traits of Companies Who Build Great Leaders
Improving Productivity: Means and Methods
What Is the Future of Remote Work In Construction?
Improving Productivity – Logistics
Improving Outcomes with ZERO Increase in Skill
Improving Productivity – Inspiring Your People to Go the Extra Mile
The Five Freedoms
Your Job is Changing!
Job Site Culture
“What’s Your Biggest Job?”
Goals vs. Forecast
The Thorny Issue of Legacy Employees
Stress and Burnout
How to Be Empathetic When You’re Not Empathetic
Building a Better Employee Experience
Fight or Flight: How Stone Age Emotional Reactions Hinder Your Business Success
The Gift of Storyworth
The Five Elements of Good Judgment
Construction is a Team Event
Has Technology Harmed Our Abilities to Communicate?
Focus on Connection with Your People
Forget Cash Incentives: Seven Better Ways to Inspire Your Employees
How Do You Recession-Proof Your Construction Firm?
Trillion Dollar Coach
Increasing Construction Risks
It’s Time to Retire – Or Is It?
How Might a Recession Affect Your Business?
The Seductiveness of “NO”
Navigating Workplace Dynamics
The Eight Downsides of Remote Work and “Earning the Commute”
Passing The Torch
Four Habits to Maximize the Effects of Recognition
Attitude and Gratitude
An Unwelcome Surprise and Six Things You Need
Healthy v. Unhealthy Ego
How Leaders Can Escape Their Echo Chambers
If the Economy Slows, What Do I Do?
“When?”
Transitioning from an Operational to Strategic Leader
What Is Commander’s Intent?
Attitude Reflects Leadership
Planning for an Uncertain Economy
The Four Legged Stool for Construction Success
Contractor Succession Isn’t an Event, It’s a PROCESS!
Bad Job Avoidance
What’s a “Tribe of Millionaires?”
Leadership Excellence
Ditch Diggers
Three PROFOUND Questions
The Strength of a Clear and Compelling Vision
In Today’s Business World, What Do Leaders WEAR?
Focus on Relationships
Be Mindful of Your Words
It’s All About Experience
It’s a Wonderful Life
Six Tips for Kicking Off the New Year Right
Honor the Field
What is a Business Plan NOT?
Great People Lead to Greater Success
How To Create More Time
Collaboration – A Key to Construction Success
Do You Consistently Walk the Walk?
Work Isn’t Life!
Turning February Warmer
Where is the Construction Economy Heading?
People – Especially Your Family! – Come First
Contractors’ Lifeblood – CASH
How to Plan More Effectively
It’s Lonely at the Top
Atomic Habits
Five Elements of Success
Atomic Habits II
What’s Your Differentiator?
An Unanticipated Hiring Advantage
It’s All About People (Still!)
Where’s the Trust?
The Secret for Finding Your Happiness
It’s What You STAND FOR!
NEW WHITE PAPER: “Proof of Financing”
If You Rest, You Rust
Leadership Pivots
The Secret to Being a Great CEO
The Art of Discipline
Why EVERY CEO Needs a Peer Group
The Devil Is In the Details
CULTURE: What the Heck IS IT?
Mastering the Habits That Matter Most
What Does It Mean if You Are Always “Firefighting?”
Setting and Achieving Goals
What’s a FOOLPROOF Way to Increase the Value of Your Business?
Be Your Best Self
Thoughts on the Subject of TIME
Five Keys for an Orderly Succession
Attracting the Right Talent
Power Your Company with Your Customer’s Purpose
How Big Things Get Done
Efficient Decision Making
2iC: What Do You Need From Your COO?
Winning the “When”
The State of the Succession Planning Art
Building Relationships
Seven Qualities of Credible People
Getting Real Value from Your Organizational Chart
Why Making Your Customers Happy Requires Entertainment
The Future of LEAN
Nine Attributes of Transformative Leaders
Four Ways to Make Your Largest Projects Successful
Why Is Humility Such a Valuable Attribute?
The Essence of Competition
How to Hire Your Next CEO
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Level Headed – The Incredible Story of a Construction Company’s Transformation
The Importance of Asking Questions
Five Ways to Be a “Sticky” Employer
How to Get Ahead Efficiently
Just How Obsessed Are WE with Screens, And What Do We Do About It?
Why Do You Want to Be a Leader?
Six Ways to Improve Employee Wellbeing
Avoiding Bad Jobs
Making the Transition from Entrepreneur to Executive
Performing Under Duress
Six Things Great Bosses Don’t Do
Who Are Your Heroes?
The Leadership Initiative that MATTERS MOST
Overcoming Setbacks
The Top Six Reasons Contractors Fail to do Succession Planning
Three Things from the Pandemic to Hold On to
Why Are People Conflicted Over Money?
Is It Good to Have Partners in Business?
Pressure Is a Privilege
Dispute Resolution is Critically Important in Construction
Which Industries Are the HAPPIEST?
How Does Momentum Work in Business?
The Trend of Re-Officing
Teamwork
14 Signs You May Become a Millionaire!
Doing Things the Right Way
Disney’s Succession Mess
Positive Lessons from Sports Participation
Benjamin Franklin’s Junto
How the Pandemic Era has Changed Construction
Defining Who You Are NOT
Planning vs. Urgency
Marcum’s 2023 Construction Survey
Reading the Tea Leaves
Spring Cleaning And a Life Lesson
Discipline
Corporate Mission Statements Miss the Mark 93% of the Time!
A Million Miles Away
What’s the Best Talent Magnet?
Larger Than Life Leadership
End of Year Wisdom from Brian Tracy
Success
Happy Holidays!
NO MARGIN, NO MISSION: The Ethical Imperative to Make Profits
Action and Inaction
A True Life Experience Economy Example
Two Way Communication
The Role of a CFO in Construction Industry
Team Engagement
One Key to Inspiring Employee Loyalty
Goal Achievement and Unanticipated Consequences
10 Things I Learned Over My Business Career
10 Things Wayne Has Learned in his 35 Years of Work and Life
Six Leadership Lessons from Ted Lasso
Why Diets Don’t Work, Why Change is Hard for Contractors, and What We Can Learn from NASCAR
Leadership Versus Management: What’s the Difference?
Is Pessimism Good for You?
Is Stress Always Bad?
Ten Signs of Contractor COMPLACENCY
What Does “Business Succession” Mean?
Where Is the Low Hanging Fruit? What Can Contractors Do Better?
A Look Ahead: What Corporate Directors Think
Why You NEED to Fail 16% of the Time?
What is “Employalty?”
How to Meet a Leader’s Toughest Challenge – Layoffs?
The Psychology of Money
Will Your Company Be Here in Ten Years?
If Strategy Is So Important, Why Don’t We Make Time for It?
Turn the Ship Around
What If Lightning DOES Strike?
The Specifics of TRUST in Construction
How Can You Add Value For Your EMPLOYEES?
Overcoming Negativity in Your Teams
Happy Fourth of July!
How to Achieve Lifelong Success
A Real Life Story of How MISSION Moved the Needle
What do Construction CEOs Earn?
20 Questions Every Contractor Should Answer
No Man’s Land
Water and the Power of Positive Thinking
Think Like a Bronze Medalist
What’s Your Social Media Footprint?
The Boys in the Boat
16 Brilliant Charlie Munger Quotes
How Did You Get Out of the Companies YOU Built?
The Supreme Court Blows Up a Popular Small Business Succession Plan
The Specter of Retirement and How to Prepare
What Are the BEST Business Books?
Three Unexpected Mindsets for Growth
Resolving Any Workplace Disagreement
Nine Hard Truths
Might Mission Trips Be Good for Your Construction Company?
Seven Tips for Recruiting Top Talent in Construction
Crucial Conversations

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