Articles by Al Levi

“Hire willing people and provide them the skills — as opposed to hiring spoiled, experienced people with skills and behavior problems.” 

Everything in business is important! Not everything in business is urgent — thank heavens!

It was working when I left!” 

There are only two types of companies I’ve ever worked with in my 18 years of being a consultant to the contracting industry.

Why is it that your staff isn’t quite as excited as you are when you discuss a new project, a new process, new policy or a habit you want to change?

I’ll admit it. I’m not a giant fan of reading financials and management reporting.

One of the nice things about my job is I’m usually busy. I like when I look up at the end of the day and see that the day has flown by. 

"It’s a drug and we’re hooked!” is what I said to my brother, Richie, about the fix I felt we got from doing the really big monster commercial and residential jobs for what we felt were lots of dollars.

A client called me awhile back because he wanted to know what my family did with the scrap metal from jobsites, and he wanted to know what the other companies I work with do on this matter too.

The old adage goes, “Do something good for someone and they’ll tell 10 people. Do something bad to someone and they’ll tell 100 people.”