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The New Normal: 8 Ways the Coronavirus Crisis is Changing Construction
In the span of two months, the coronavirus crisis has demanded sweeping changes from the U.S. construction industry, and experts say many of them will remain in place even after the outbreak recedes. As contractors prepare to return to work on sites that have been...
Gain Total Control Over Your Construction Projects and Be Informed in Real-Time
The COVID-19 outbreak is disrupting supply chains and affecting production and sales across a range of industries.The extent of the impact on an organization’s operational and financial performance will depend on certain developments, including the duration and spread...
Prefabrication Holds Many Keys for Emergency Buildings in Times of Crisis
At the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, two hospitals—with 2,600 total patient beds—were assembled using simple steel frames in just 10 days. It’s a test case for how factory-built, rapidly deployable emergency buildings can empower communities to...
Industry Perfectly Poised to Deploy Mobile Workforce
We’ve all seen those neon cardboard ads stapled on telephone poles at intersections: “Work from home and make BIG $$$.” This is now a reality for the ready-mix concrete industry, along with countless others. We are actually better suited than most for going mobile....
What’s Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means to Be Human
Over the last month billions of people have been unwilling participants in the largest unintentional social experiment ever run – testing how video conferencing replaced face-to-face communication. While we’ve discovered that in many cases it can, more importantly...
COVID-19 Lockdown: The Psychological Impact on Your Workforce
“I’m doing at least three jobs daily, sometimes simultaneously,” lamented Sara, a single mother of school-aged children who also has an elderly parent in hospice care.“Most mornings I am up at dawn to accommodate calls with our staff in Asia so I can handle those...
Scenario Planning: Drive Strategic Action And Real ROI
To succeed in business today, you need the ability to navigate rapidly shifting currents. Traditionally, these have ranged from evolving technologies and new competitors to changing regulations and emerging geopolitical trends. These days, with the COVID-19 epidemic,...
When a Crisis Hits, a Transformational Positive Influence Leader Steps Up
When a crisis hits, we need leaders with different talents and styles to be positive influences on the organization.We need smart leaders who quickly master complex information, communicate it in terms easily understood and then are able to make it work to the benefit...
Looking for Talent to Lead a Post-crisis World
Few knew this better than General of the Army George C. Marshall, who served as chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II. Marshall had served since graduating from the Virginia Military Institute at the turn of the 20thcentury. He served in World War I and...