Yvonne Root
Build Holiday Traditions in Your Construction Business
It’s not too late! Creating a holiday tradition your employees enjoy, your clients appreciate, or your community (or another community)...
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Yvonne Root
- Nov 23
- 2 min
Colorful Thanksgiving
What’s Your Favorite Color? My grandkids learned a long time ago what my pat response was to the question, “What’s your favorite color?”...
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Yvonne Root
- Nov 16
- 3 min
An Unusual Look at KPIs
Because you are a construction contractor, there are two fundamental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you hear about all the time. They...
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Yvonne Root
- Nov 2
- 3 min
Don’t Jump Off the Empire State Building!
I didn’t know much about the Empire State Building when I was a child – other than that you shouldn’t jump off it. I knew that because...
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Yvonne Root
- Oct 26
- 3 min
Strategy to Maintain Organized Work Sites
An unorganized or messy job site indicates to owners, potential clients, visitors, suppliers, and staff that efficiency is lacking. Here...
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Yvonne Root
- Oct 19
- 3 min
What to do When You’ve Messed Up
When I Messed Up The extended family had gathered. Cooking and chatter were going on. Adults were “catching up,” and children were...
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Yvonne Root
- Oct 12
- 3 min
Capable Construction Contractors Collaborate part 2
The first part of this two-part series aimed to supply food for thought concerning the benefits of collaborating; now, the focus will be...
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Yvonne Root
- Oct 5
- 3 min
Capable Construction Contractors Collaborate
Soup or Salad One evening, our extended family gathered at a local restaurant. The ordering process began with my uncle. After he had...
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Yvonne Root
- Sep 28
- 2 min
Invest in Continuous Improvement
While the idea of investing in your construction contracting business can run from purchasing new tools or equipment to spending on...
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Yvonne Root
- Sep 15
- 3 min
Four-Day Work Week Part 2
In the first part of this essay, the discussion centered around the 5-day workweek, why we use it, and the possibility of changing the...
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Yvonne Root
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Four-Day Work Week? Part 1
The Answer is 42 According to the comedic science fiction book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the number 42 is the answer to...
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Yvonne Root
- Aug 31
- 2 min
Financial Flexibility
You don’t have to have the ability of the biblical king Belshazzar to see the handwriting on the wall. Nor do you have to have the...
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Yvonne Root
- Aug 24
- 2 min
Inflation Information
This is Humorous Why are there so many jokes about inflation these days? Because demand has increased following a period of low interest....
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Yvonne Root
- Aug 17
- 3 min
Good Luck Kid
A 9-year-old offers advice to a 5-year-old, and you’ll be surprised at how well it informs your construction subcontracting project...
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Yvonne Root
- Aug 10
- 4 min
Priority Make it a Priority
It happened again. I found myself standing across the counter from a sweet young sales clerk who, in all innocence, asked me, “Do you...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 27
- 3 min
Wise Words About Delegating
The Power of Delegation After reading the last three posts on this blog, Delegation in the Construction Office, Avoiding...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 20
- 5 min
Alternative Construction Office Delegation
This page is the final installment of a three-part series concerning delegating well in a construction contractor’s office. The first...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 13
- 2 min
Avoiding Micromanagement
In our last article, Delegation in the Construction Office, the topic centered on delegating well. In this article, we dig deeper into...
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Yvonne Root
- Jul 6
- 5 min
Delegation in the Construction Office
The fundamental, down-to-earth, bottom-line reason for developing your delegation skill is to become effective at getting your staff and...
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Yvonne Root
- Jun 29
- 5 min
It Takes Guts and Then Some
In almost every entrepreneurial enterprise the owner must maintain a certain amount of guts. In the construction industry, we see folks...
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