Building Operations The feed vs. the hunt My son is 6 years-old. It’s a fun age. Witnessing your progeny develop original thoughts on shared topics is a trip. My son is...
Building Operations Rosetta Stone, relevance, and retention Living in a small sliver of the language pie Rosetta Stone enlarged, we owe a debt of gratitude to the public company. Rosetta has been...
Building Operations “We’ve done this a lot. You...as a group…are stupid.” Last week I went to the Chicago filming of “America’s Got Talent”, the NBC show that accepts all comers who don’t make it on American...
Building Operations The “knowledge worker” rant I despise the term Knowledge Worker. Why? Let’s start with the definition of Knowledge Worker and you can judge for yourself. Knowledge...
Building Operations Be like Mat: Go big Comas :: 2 Broken bones :: 21 Surgeries :: 23 Concussions :: 100+ Stitches :: 300+ You don’t become the greatest vertical ramp...
Building Operations Text Mex: Meet ‘em where they are Would you ever use Twitter to announce your family dinner is being served? Ridiculous question, right? Wait. Hold that answer…. The...
Building Operations Confessions of a bilingual construction guy His candor surprised me. I’ve never had anyone actually admit it. But there it was. In digital ink on the email in my Inbox. The...
Building Operations The Inverse Golden Rule + 3 CYA tools when working with Hispanics You know The Golden Rule, right? He who has the gold makes the rules. On the jobsite today, there is an inverse to The Golden...
Building Operations 'I see dead people' + 3 other common sensibilities An obstacle to better jobsite safety is the English-Spanish language gap. Here are three Spanish phrases you can use to communicate the obvious—but essential—on the jobsite
Building Operations Micro-fluency: Sí se puede! Working at my second office yesterday (Starbucks), two latino twenty-somethings and their language choices caught my attention. They were...
