In today’s successful concrete construction company, extraordinary profits are earned by ordinary operations people who have a clear direction on the task to be completed, when it needs to be completed, and an understanding of acceptable units of productivity. These skilled operations people typically need very little management and enjoy creating more efficient means of completing assignments. Skilled operations people are extremely valuable in a company. They can keep projects profitable when estimators miss an estimate but win the job. They can correct problems revealed by accounting before its too late. The old concrete construction company was run by strong personalities, gut feelings, and check book balances. We called it feast or famine. As people moved along with these companies, […]