During the 23rd annual Business & Leadership Conference, NSCA’s 2021 agenda on behalf of our members is presented during the Annual Member Meeting. Each meeting attendee is provided with a letter outlining NSCA’s proposed priorities. Below is that letter. Hello 2021 BLC Attendees and NSCA Members, While 2020 was a chaotic and unpredictable year, NSCA Read the full article…
For my 100th blog post, I thought I would share 100 of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned from my mentors, advisors, business experts, and industry leaders, as well as my own experiences over the past several years. Here we go … You can never be prepared enough for a natural disaster that interrupts business. Read the full article…
I’m a rule follower…I actually love rules, especially the ones I make. Most of our members do a great job creating rules of their own to improve efficiencies and be well organized. The problem I’ve been seeing is that we seldom review the old and obsolete rules before implementing new ones. The end result is Read the full article…
One of our members asked me recently about the direction and future of video conferencing as we know it today and where I see that all headed. To better answer his question I did some collaboration with two of this industry’s leading experts to see if we shared opinions, or had vastly different perspectives. Our Read the full article…
I was recently invited to tag along at three large scale technology implementation projects in existing facilities. On these trips I went with the purpose of observing and assessing the end users perception on how we impact workflow and process, rather than evaluating the technology itself. My goal was to see how effective, or disruptive, Read the full article…
I’m on a mission and I need your help. Here’s my idea…I want you to send me the worst contract language you’ve seen this past year. Then I’m going to take the top ten sentences or paragraphs and rank them. Why you ask? I will work with two of the finest construction lawyers in the Read the full article…
Instincts can be very good; they can also cost you a lot of money. Every integrator talks about setting a minimum mark and maintaining the discipline necessary to stick with it. Yet it still happens, contractors quickly meet the lower price without first building a true cost model to support the decision. We find ourselves Read the full article…
A new measure of success in today’s turbulent business climate might be how well your people deal with adversity. I speak with company leaders who take great pride in how their employees have learned to adapt to certain situations without panic or despair. I speak with others who end up having every problem come to Read the full article…
So I asked an integrator; “Hey buddy, how’s work?” He said “it’s a grind”. So, I asked a few others; they all described it in different words but essentially the same manner. Not able to leave that alone, I asked each of them why is that. Here are their responses: Buddy #1: Because I’m sick Read the full article…
Have you ever been to a job site on time and nothing is ready? Have you ever sent a truck with two techs to the site only to have them return four hours later with no billable time to report? How about installers who come back saying they went ahead and ran the cable or Read the full article…
