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Suzanne’s Best Practice Lesson 2012!
Early this morning, I was enjoying my quiet time by our beautiful Christmas tree when the words best practices came into my thoughts. Since our December newsletter is entitled, “Making the Last Days of...
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Construction and the Holidays – Make the Last Days of 2012 Count!
It is hard to believe that 2012 is almost over. This year, we have brought to you 12 newsletters and over one hundred helpful articles written just for the construction industry and those who touch...
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January 2013 Newsletter: The New Norm
Happy New Year to you! Congratulations to all of you who persevered through the ups and downs of our industry in 2012 and the few years proceeding. We at Construction Connection hope that the forced...
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February 2013 Newsletter: LOVE Acrostic Style
This morning, after taking my daughter to school, I went to the bank ATM drive-thru. Unfortunately, I was behind a contractor who decided that he would tie up the drive-thru ATM for 15 minutes,...
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March 2013 Newsletter: Garbage In, Garbage Out
The monkey statue, “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,” is right in front of me most mornings when I spend my quiet time alone before the rest of the family awakes. I have often wondered why...
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April 2013 Newsletter: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Originally, the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined to refer to the fact that a picture could tell a story just as well as a descriptive text. Photography was a new invention and a...
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Recruiting, Hiring and Keeping the Best People
Recruiting, Hiring and Keeping the Best People Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. at Partners for Self-Employment 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 215A Miami, FL 33137 Presenter: Suzanne Breistol...
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May 2013 Newsletter: Human Capital — What is the Cost?
Hello Newsletter Subscribers, Thank you for the feedback each month and for forwarding the newsletter to your friends and business associates. This month, our focus is on human capital – what is the...
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Do You Practice Insanity?
Insanity – the state of being seriously mentally ill, madness, or extreme foolishness or irrationality. I don’t know about you, but some days I think I would describe myself that way and others would...
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June 2013 Newsletter: Stop the Insanity
Dear Construction Connection Newsletter Subscribers, It is hard to believe that 2013 is half over. We see the construction industry busy again and hope, in theme with this newsletter, that more and...
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Co-Founder’s Corner – July 2013 Newsletter: 313.7 Million More!
Dear Construction Connection Members and Subscribers, It’s hard to believe that on the first Independence Day in 1776, when America first celebrated its freedom from Great Britain, the American...
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Co-Founder’s Corner: Is it an Employer or Employee Market in Construction...
United States Labor Department statistics show that, for as many people gaining jobs in construction, the same number are losing their construction industry jobs and that employment levels are still...
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Co-Founder’s Corner: Is Construction Working Hard and Smart?
Last month, when the newsletter topic was distributed, I didn’t connect the dots that it would publish right after Labor Day weekend. So many angles to this topic have been going through my mind and...
View ArticleCo-Founder’s Corner: Where’s the “I” in TEAM?
If you go to Amazon and search under “books,” and enter the key words team building, you get over 47,000 results. Is it really such a complicated subject? My personal opinion is that team building is...
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Co-Founder’s Corner: Do You Need a Shutdown?
In U.S. politics, a government “shutdown” is the name for the process the Executive Branch must enter into when Congress creates a “funding gap” by failing to choose or pass legislation which funds...
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Co-Founder’s Corner: What Was Your Favorite Construction Connection Feature...
It is hard to believe that the end of 2013 is near and we will soon usher in 2014. In January of this year, Construction Connection had 27,000 members, and in November, we celebrated 50,000 members!...
View ArticleCo-Founder’s Corner: The Cranes – They’re Back!
Last year at this time, our newsletter was on the “New Norm”, and we linked to an article in Bloomberg news where an economist they featured predicted a half million new jobs in 2014. According to the...
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Contractor Love Poem
The alarm goes off To greet a new day I turn on the light To guide my way Two feet touch the floor I head through the door To a working commode, shower and sink Then to the kitchen for food and drink...
View ArticleCo-Founder’s Corner: Not All Roses?
Hello to you 55,000 plus subscribers. Thank you for being a part of Construction Connection and for all your referrals. We love and appreciate you! In the past month alone some of the many challenges...
View ArticleCo-Founder’s Corner: Are You “the Salt of the Earth”?
Hello Construction Network, I hope all of you are closing out the first quarter with smart business practices that are producing your target profits. If not, don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here...
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