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Resource Revolution: Optimizing Your Workforce

Resource Revolution: Optimizing Your Workforce Guest writer Dale Hanna takes a look at the year ahead and all of its challenges in “Resource Revolution: Optimizing Your Workforce.” As the calendar turns to 2024, the landscape of the construction industry reflects an ongoing challenge — a significant labor shortage. In an era where leaders face the […]

Types of Purchases: Understand What Your Customers Are Buying

Types of Purchases: Understand What Your Customers Are Buying Guest writers Debbie Frakes and Steve Clegg take a look at customer behavior in this week’s blog post, “Types of Purchases: Understand What Your Customers Are Buying.” To market your business effectively, it’s important to understand which products and services your customers buy most often and […]

He Who Stops to Ponder…

He Who Stops to Ponder… In this week’s bonus blog, a friend of Ron’s in Hawaii sent him the text below. Please read on for “He Who Stops to Ponder…” He who stops to ponder and think will generally come out ahead. When Gandhi was studying law at University College, London, a Caucasian professor, whose […]

Equipment Labor Shortage Challenges and Solutions for 2024

Equipment Labor Shortage Challenges and Solutions for 2024 Guest writer Greg Grady writes today about the new year just around the corner in “Equipment Labor Shortage Challenges and Solutions for 2024.” Finding out how technology, including automation, can help address heavy equipment workforce shortages in 2024 and beyond. In 2024, the heavy equipment rental and […]

More, Better, and Creative

More, Better, and Creative Courtesy of the Water Well Journal, Editor Thad Plumley provides this week’s guest blog post in “More, Better, and Creative.” I spoke years ago with the manager of a book warehouse whose workforce mostly consisted of temporary employees. I asked why he didn’t have more full-timers and was told the workers […]

Top Three Reasons to Skip the University System

Top Three Reasons to Skip the University System Guest writer Isaac Rollor shares some different options in 2023 for high school graduates in “Top Three Reasons to Skip the University System.” Top three reasons to skip the university system and pursue a heavy equipment career in 2023. Imagine yourself as an 18-year-old high school graduate […]