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The December 2010 issue of Roofing Contractor magazine will have a breakdown of over a dozen speakers who attended the Best of Success (BOS) conference held in September in Denver.

Isn’t it tough when your company grows and you have to add Techs for you to decide who is and isn’t qualified on what to do?

In the last two weeks, I’ve traveled to Las Vegas twice for construction trade shows. While there, I had to turn off the TV in my hotel room to escape the tidal wave of negative political ads.

We get so busy running our business that we forget why we got into business and we’ve never thought about what the End Game should and could be.

It has been a busy fall. Things heated up in the lead-up to Roofing Contractor’s sixth annual Best of Success conference.

Putting together a buy-sell for our family business.

Speaking of consumer (no) confidence. It was sure nice of Time magazine to run a cover feature on why homeownership is such a terrible thing. 

Public speaking is tough. As Jerry Seinfeld once noted, “According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

I do not believe for a minute that the tax breaks passed by the Senate recently are anything more than political maneuvering. On the one hand, if the government is finally recognizing small business as the engine that creates jobs in our country that would be a good thing.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting really ticked off by the overreaction to every shift in the economy, especially those that relate to the A/E/C and maintenance fields.