Masonry Magazine February 1994 Page. 50
Motivation. A lot more than money.
Comes in as many forms as there are employees and clients.
Overhead. What too many companies need to cut and what too few cut properly.
Before you downsize, try rightsizing. Retain your workers and build on their experience.
Planning. A hierarchy of management involvement that guides a contracting firm.
Planning is cheap when compared to the alternative.
Quality. Often preceded by "Total" and followed by "Management."
A quality job goes beyond meeting specifications. You can't inspect in quality, it must come from within the company by doing the job right the first time.
Relationships. Everyone in your company is a customer service representative.
Every client is advertising your services. Relationship-building is everyone's job.
THE MASON'S CHOICE IS PRODUCTIVITY, AFFORDABILITY & LESS LABOR
* INCREASE PRODUCTION 20-35%
Keep masons working at most productive level all day.
No stopping to move mason's brackets and planks.
Provide masons with better visibility of work being performed.
Eliminates stooping down or reaching up for materials.
* REDUCE SCAFFOLD LABOR COSTS 80%
Build only once on the job and move with forklifts.
No moving of safety rails or unused material to next level.
Towers can be extended without interfering with the masons working.
* STRONG
Winch and pully reduces the force necessary to raise full pallets of block or brick by 75.6%.
* SAFE
Safety device can only be released by foot petal.
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To maximize your bottom line profits, Mighty invites you to attend workshops offered in Nashville and will job-site train your personnel.
Chasing jobs while ignoring people, is a 1950s solution to a 1990s problem.
Satisfaction. The key to keeping good employees, expanding your business and making your company a more fun place to work.
Starts with building intrinsic rewards into the job that place all employees on a career track. See "leadership."
Training. The best way to keep employees fresh and motivated.
The real shortage facing contractors in the '90s isn't manpower-it's a lack of skilled labor.
Utilization. Maximum utilization requires time allocation, maintenance and planning.
Applies equally to materials, machines, and manpower.
Values. The core principles of your business.
Should be disseminated throughout your company and incorporated in your mission statement.
World-class. What you'll be by following the ABCs of contracting.
Xenophile. A lover of the new, the different, even the exotic.
If you hire the best people you can expect them to make changes. If you differentiate your company you will be attracting new clients, promoting yourself in new ways, perhaps changing the way you do business altogether.
Youth. A precious commodity in our industry that is being lost to a negative public image of construction.
Zealot. A person who carries the message of quality and innovation to every jobsite.
You don't have to be one to survive the 1990s only if you want to thrive in the '90s.
Success in this uncertain market, then, is a matter of adaptation. The new words must stand for new think-
Opening the door to hope
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