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Lean Design

I had the pleasure of meeting and having dinner with Charlie Scott the other night. Charlie owns a very successful national consulting...

Builders

They say a writer never “makes it” until he gets hate mail. In at least four blog posts this year, I have expressed my frustrations with...

Quality Management

Do you care as a leader?

A key aspect of quality management is the importance we place on employees, valuing people. We spend a significant amount of time and money...

The Sweet Spot

For the last couple of years I've been speaking to groups of remodelers about crafting a social media strategy for their firms and one of...

Customer Satisfaction

Home building is an extremely complicated business and as such requires very intelligent people and systems. Think about it for a second. ...

Lean Design

With Costco, Sam's Club and all the other "buy in bulk" stores out there today pantries are becoming larger and larger. Builders are...

The Sweet Spot

Book Review: 100 Best Kitchens & Dining Rooms

The 100 Best Kitchens & Dining Rooms This new book from Beta-Plus is a nice collection of design ideas, but definitely more of the...

Quality Management

Innovation and creative problem solving

Being creative and innovative is something that is widely touted, but how do we actually do it? This may be needed for a particular issue...

The Sweet Spot

Excuse me if you've heard this before ... In what we can't exactly call a surprise, another government program aimed at helping underwater...

The Lean Builder

Lean Building Blog: What to Read on Lean

Today, a sharp young guy named Ryan wrote to me after seeing a Keynote Presentation I did at the recent BuilderExchange meeting in Las Vegas...

Home Builders Institute's Schools to Skills Grant Application Open Through December