Tag: inflation

November 29, 2022

Business Planning is Becoming More Challenging

The final month of 2022 is a good time to start assessing how your year went. You also need to ask yourself what you want to do more next year and what should be avoided. As the economy changes, it is more important than ever to look at how your business is doing. Inflation this year is going to affect a lot of companies’ bottom […]

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July 26, 2022

Can Too Much Business be Bad for Your Company?

When I started in the glass business in 1980 (it seems like only yesterday) as an outside sales rep in New England, I will never forget something a customer shared with me early in my career. At the time, I was unaware that you shouldn’t ask to see the owner of a large company when you sell gloves and razor blades. So, when I called […]

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June 14, 2022

Communications Between all the Stake Holders is the Key to Success

Next week I am going to be part of a panel at the AIA Conference in Chicago and two of the topics chosen to be discussed are: 1. Communications between the architect, general contractor, and subcontractors. 2. How can we keep new and innovative, but often expensive, products from being VE’d out of the project? In preparing for the event the panel has been meeting […]