Working Like an Owner

Success in anything significant can never be guaranteed, but there are many things you can do that will nearly guarantee failure.

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This applies for your life, relationships, career, business, and sports.  

Leadership Tools: Working like an owner will not guarantee career advancement including ownership.

If you do the following consistently for five years, without any expectation in return, I can nearly guarantee that you will see opportunities open for you that few have.  After ten years, you will have opportunities that only one in a hundred people have. After twenty years, your life will be undeniably great.  





Using a Vision to Create Desire and Context for Tasks
There is a whole lot of work involved in building projects and building a construction company. It is easy to get mired down in endless to-do lists, processes, and problems. The thing that holds this all together and accelerates performance is the vision.
Incentive Compensation for Contractors - Alignment
One of the most challenging aspects of incentive programs is communicating demonstrated success in such a way that every functional group believes they have direct impact on their incentive outcome and that it is fairly applied across all stakeholders.
Resource - Negotiation (3 Prerequisites + 4 Perspectives)
Negotiation skills will enhance nearly everything your management teams do from winning work through building the project to working with your bank and surety. This is a collection of the best resources we've used to build these capabilities.