It’s not more hours you need. It’s structure. If you feel pressure every week, you are running the company alone. That stops when your systems start. Learn more
Read more How To Stop Hiring The Wrong People
Tag: Contractor Success
You can’t manage what you can’t see. Pull your numbers, track what’s real, and stop running your business on assumptions. When the truth is on the table, every decision gets sharper, and every
Read more Pull Your Numbers, Track the Truth, and Stop Flying Blind
Average teams hide from metrics. Great teams seek them out. Measurement turns assumptions into data and effort into results. Email :
Read more Only the Best Teams Are Measured
Projects always deliver a result: profit or lessons. Profit strengthens your company; lessons show you where to improve. The key is turning lessons into systems so future projects actually pay. Email
Read more Profit or Lessons: The Two Outcomes of Every Project
Every project is its own business.
Its own revenue.
Its own risk.
If you’re not tracking profit per job, you’re guessing per job. The fastest way to protect your margin is to treat every project
Read more Every project is its own business.
Being busy feels productive, but it’s often just motion. Real progress requires intention, direction, and measurable outcomes. Don’t mistake activity for advancement. Email :
Read more Don’t Confuse Motion With Progress
What is The Apple Effect? It’s the playbook I wrote after years of working inside $1M–$50M companies that couldn’t see why they were stuck. I wrote it because every founder deserves a system
Read more What is The Apple Effect?
You can see the dry spell coming, if you’re paying attention. Two months out from finishing a project and no new jobs in play? That’s not momentum. That’s a cliff. It takes 60–120 days to
Read more How to Spot a Business Dry Spell Before It Hits
Hard decisions protect culture.
Every day you tolerate misalignment, you teach your top performers that standards don’t matter. Protect the vision. Lead with clarity. If they won’t align, they
Read more Hard Decisions Protect Company Culture
Every estimator protects margin on paper but the moment that job starts, control shifts. If your project managers don’t own margin, they’ll spend it. At the Charlotte Build Expo, I broke down how
Read more Why Estimators Protect Margin on Paper but Lose Control Once the Job Starts