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What Me Worry?
Back in the 1960s "What Me Worry" was the masthead motto of a little counterculture publication known as Mad Magazine that is still around somewhere to this day. Some of you more senior readers out there may remember it. At that time, my brother and I were deeply...
The Enemy Within
A major theme throughout the Godfather trilogy is betrayal by enemies hidden within the family. "You're nothing to me now, Fredo" Al Pacino says to his brother who has betrayed him in Godfather 2. "Nothing happens to Fredo while my mother is still alive," Pacino...
The CFO Consigliere
I have been waging a lifelong campaign to convince contractors that financial management is a professional skill and a critical component of their team. Our profits are limited by unique risk factors like multiple simultaneous projects, extended schedule, and risks of...
Your Chief Financial Officer
Contractors often wait too long to employ the business management expertise of a qualified Chief Financial Officer. Small and mid-size businesses across all industries have traditionally left accounting to a bookkeeper, hiring an outside accounting firm to close the...
Beliefs and Harmful Bias
Unexamined beliefs play a role in the management decision making process and deeply held beliefs go largely unexamined. That is to say, we aren't even aware that we believe what we believe. The problem arises when these unexamined beliefs affect our decision making...
Profit, Profit, Profit
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." As most of my readers I am sure will testify, I don't often quote Shakespeare. But the confusion around the word profit in the construction industry has driven me to desperate measures. What do we mean when we speak of...
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