Category Archives: Strategic Planning

Family Business, Family Association

On a recent NECA trip, I headed downstairs to the hotel bar at the end of the meeting to see who might be there. I ran into a NECA-member contractor and sat down to have a drink with him.  Our conversation drifted onto the subject of his business and some challenges he was facing. His workers’ comp … Read more »

Not Going to be a Statistical Victim

The other day I was glancing at a magazine published by a non-union electrical contractors group. In an opening editorial by the group’s president, I came across a line claiming the group represented contractors performing “86% of private sector construction work in the U.S.” That caused me to sit bolt upright in my chair, ready to fight. … Read more »