Management

DEFENESTRATION, according to Dictionary.com, is defined as "an act of throwing someone or something out of a window." Project management by defenestration isn't quite as simple as throwing the general contractor who has been making your life a...

WE RECENTLY returned from a dude ranch in Colorado (www.wrranch.com) that backed right up to Rocky Mountain National Park. The Colorado River begins its journey a few miles away and flows through the ranch. We had an opportunity to visit with...

FOR FIELD PERSONNEL, here are a couple new cell-phone accessible software solutions from ECONZ Wireless, a developer of wireless solutions for small-to mediumsized field service contractors and other small business workforces that regularly...

WE'VE BEEN TALKING for the last three months about how to properly size a heat source when replacing oversized cast-iron boilers that once used solid fuel. They come with an existing castiron radiation distribution system. At then end of last...

I AM SURE that every contractor and vendor has encountered the frustration of finding a specification that limits acceptable products too much. If your firm makes or sells excluded products, you have lost out on potential sales. If you are a...

HAVE YOU WONDERED why the most irritated people in the world always call you? Surely it has less to do with you than the kind of contracting business you're in. The fact is, plumbing contractors get irritable phone calls because the customer on...

STRATEGY NO. 1. Are you an S corporation? Be careful. The IRS is on the warpath. Why? Many S corporation owners take small or sometimes zero salaries to avoid paying payroll taxes. Instead, they take dividends, which are not subject to payroll...

A LITTLE MORE than a year ago, I wrote a column, "Rules for creating a successful PM career" (July 2004, pg. 44). One of the rules I mentioned was, "Ritualize your job life," and I added, "Don't fight the rituals of project management; embrace...