Your Plimsoll Line: When Overwhelmed, Bail Water

2019-03-12

Why would you overload a cargo ship to the point of sinking? Why would you overload yourself with too many...

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Larry Janesky's 8th HVA: Maintain Installed Job Quality

2019-03-08

You don't want to grow a "broken business." If you have customer complaints or callbacks, these problems will multiply as...

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Larry Janesky's 7th HVA: Prioritize Your Time

2019-02-28

Understanding what the most important activity for you to do right now is critical for a leader. Why would you...

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One Idea Exponentially Increases a Contractors Chance of Success

2019-02-27

It's NOT based on working longer or harder!...

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Larry Janesky's 6th HVA: Keep Internal Standards High

2019-02-20

If a place is messy, people routinely use profanity, and there is litter in the yard, people assume that the...

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How to Stop Selling Jobs that Don't Make You Money

2019-02-20

Every contractor knows that there are good jobs and bad jobs. But which are which?...

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Larry Janesky's 5th HVA: Communicate Clear Goals and Expectations

2019-02-13

Others don't hear you talking about goals and expectations nearly as much as you do. The rule is that you...

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What Dirt Bike Racing Teaches Us About Leadership in Business

2019-02-12

When you do something you've never done before, you don't know how it's going to turn out. Nor do you...

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Larry Janesky's 4th HVA: Work on Your Leadership

2019-02-06

To build a great business requires a lot of great people. Your leadership will play the most important role in...

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Most Contractors Spend 99% of Their Time on This One Mistake

2019-02-04

If you're running a contracting business, it's likely you never have enough time. As the owner or leader, all responsibility...

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Low Employee Turnover is Key to Business Growth

2019-02-01

When someone leaves your company voluntarily, they have fired their manager, the company or the opportunity. Keeping employees engaged is...

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Larry Janesky's 3rd HVA: Develop Leaders

2019-01-29

The ability to scale your business comes from the development of people into leaders....

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Contractors: Better Consumer Targeting for Less Cost with BrandBlaster

2019-01-28

Time and again, from Blockbuster to Toys-R-Us to Sears, we've seen that being behind the curve in the digital age...

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Time Management is a Myth. Contractors, follow the 80/20 Rule.

2019-01-25

We can't "manage time," but we can work on the highest value actions in the time we have....

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Larry Janesky's 2nd HVA: Training People to Your Vision

2019-01-22

If you’re an owner of a contracting business, your HVAs or High Value Activities – the most important jobs the...

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This Struggling Contractor Added One Thing and Suddenly Became Profitable

2019-01-18

Before the sales system was in place, this contractor's sales people sold on price. Find out how they turned around...

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Whoever Heard of a Contractor Not Wanting to Get Paid for Their Work

2019-01-15

You shouldn't want to get paid for the work you do. You should focus on getting paid for the work...

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Larry's First HVA: Hiring the Right People

2019-01-13

Hiring the right people for your contracting business is extremely important because we can't accomplish great things without great employees...

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Solving this One Problem will Solve 10-20 Other Problems

2019-01-08

Other business owners and highly productive people know this simple trick....

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Larry Janesky's 12 Personal HVAs for Home Improvement Contractors

2019-01-04

High Value Activities are those activities that produce big, important or lasting results. Here are Larry Janesky's Top 12....

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