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What can we learn about accountability in business from The Apprentice, Donald Trump's televised search for his next executive? In Trump's version, you're on a team where you avoid taking responsibility and sometimes even undermine team performance to protect yourself. To survive, you may have to...
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Carpenters and other field employees tend to think in terms of the quality of their work, and good remodelers wouldn't have it any other way. The downside is that carpenters' quest for excellence sometimes distracts them from the company's bottom-line goals and needs, and their attention to detail...
Remodelers generally do well by doing good, and Clemleddy Construction was no exception in June when its participation in a 24-hour "Relay for Life"
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Having a plan for a face-to-face encounter benefits the whole team.
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In April 2002, a laborer who had been with Dover Home Remodelers, North Olmsted, Ohio, for five months injured his rotator cuff. He went through rehabilitation and eventually had surgery, after which his physician said he showed “medical maximum improvement.”
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After 25 years of trial and error, guest columnist Tracey Bail ranks the top 10 things he's learned in the remodeling business as follows:
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Personal accountability is integral to remodeling success, but most remodelers want to create a pervasive organizational culture of accountability as well.
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My dentist's office is closed Fridays. Many medical professionals take a day off in the middle of the week, usually Wednesday, as the joke goes, because golf courses are less crowded midweek. My dentist doesn't golf (he rides motorcycles and scuba dives), so Friday is as good as any other day.
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To make weekly meetings more fun - and more memorable - Winans Construction has incorporated a series of rotating activities for each of their Monday company-wide meetings.
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One production manager's experience in the military shaped his way of successfully managing teams.