What are the obstacles to paying your employees what they are worth?

We’ve been stressing America’s critical craft shortage, along with some innovative “means and methods” to attract more good help while hanging onto who you already have on your payroll.

Now that 1998 is upon us, I want to take a moment to see what progress has been made on our 1997 resolutions.

You can’t adequately measure productivity without first considering specific conditions encountered on each jobsite.

Frank Bracco knows how much money and time pre-fab saves, as well as providing the ability and reputation for meeting critical schedules.

I declare 1997 to be the Year of the Craftsman.

Your customers will pay more for first-class professionals, but they will also demand what they are paying for.

As many contractors have already discovered, those prolonged overtime schedules also prove to be non-productive and quite costly.

Unfortunately we have a lot of contractors and far more ex-contractors who never learned what the formula, x - y = P, meant in their businesses.

The most important lesson I ever learned has been my motto and inspiration throughout all of my life — “Add pride to his life, his work will show it.”