Best Practices Has the Economy Forced Everyone to Lie I recently conducted several searches in both residential and commercial businesses in multiple states. The positions ranged from...
Building Operations 5 Ways to get better Results as a Leader Over my 30 years of working with senior leaders, I have seen the good the bad and the very ugly. It seems that any “C’ level person who...
Management Century 21 chief exec to Obama: it's time for a White House 'housing summit' The head of a major U.S. real-estate company is calling on the White House to hold a “housing summit” to address some of the major hurdles holding back the housing market.
Building Operations Maximizing your Real Estate Brokers Performance For a little less than two years, I led the 15th largest real estate brokerage firm in the US. It was an interesting departure from the day...
Building Operations 3 Ways to Optimize Employee Performance It's time to refocus attention on your employees and begin turning your people back into highly productive, committed members of your team
The Lean Builder How to Save $5,000 Per Unit If you knew you were losing about $5K per unit due to just one item of waste in your houses, would you do something about it?
Best Practices Fast track your strategies to successful implementation I took a detour the last two years in my consulting career in residential home building by leading one of the largest real estate brokerage...
Quality Management Home Builder Scopes of Work One of the keys to a successful builder and home is a strong set of scopes of work
The Sweet Spot Lead paint rules hurting the good guys The EPA’s LRRP lead paint rules put us, as an industry, in an awkward place. We have a rule that is, by all accounts, increasing the...
Lean Design Brownies, muffins and dollars I must admit, as an architect involved heavily in the home building business for the last 20 years I have never come across the concept of ...
