You may have heard of “Play Like A Champion Today”. Those immortal words are painted on a sign that hangs in the Notre Dame locker room which Lou Holtz hung in 1986. The players touch the sign as they exit the locker room on their way to the field. Each player touches the sign in their own way, some bang it with both fists, some slap it as if they were high fiving the sign, and others simply slide their hand across the famous sign. It is there to remind the team to do their very best.
Have you ever felt like you were “in the zone”? This is when you feel hyper-focused and relaxed at the same time, and when time seems to go by slowly or stop altogether. It is a feeling of complete control and performing at your peak. This is also referred to as being in “FLOW”.
We have always heard about the importance of organization, but I can tell you from personal experience that it is a miracle drug. My wife is the one who got me to see the light and it has changed my life.
Getting to know your workers is crucial and begins in the hiring process. Like a coach scouting a potential athlete, you will learn a tremendous amount about an applicant in the interview process. Today we give you a closer look at our hiring process.
Most of us at some point in our lives have been part of a team. Maybe it was a sports team, maybe it was in the workplace. Regardless of the nature of the task, when you get a group of people together working towards a common goal, you have yourself a team.
One year ago this week, we lost our friend and colleague Ty Womble in a tragic plane crash. Before his accident Stone Development had asked Ty to write a blog for our website. We never had a chance to publish the blog before his passing. Today, on the anniversary of his death, in his memory we would like to share his thoughts on Design Build / Strategic Alliances in Contracting Relative to Vertical Integration.
Failure is not typically a positive word, but I think it’s absolutely necessary for successful business. We never learn from our successes, but we always learn from our failures. If we’re not failing, then it often means we are not pushing hard enough, challenging ourselves enough, and we may just be wasting our time.
Being on top of things is really important to us at Stone Development. There are many things we can’t control, but this is something we all CAN control. The only downside? You may have to clean your shower door a little more often!
Everybody has their own talents, and this is ours. It’s what we specialize in. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes about the division of labor and how individuals can get better at specific skills over time and are, therefore, able to specialize in that skill.
That’s one of the best things about the process. You put something together, start working at it, everybody works the same way and you find out ways together to do things better and smarter.
There are so many different things going on with project management, such as budgeting and scheduling. The only thing that’s really constant is that we can’t completely control any of it.
Rushing the preconstruction phase never positively helped anyone on the team. It is much better to flesh out design ideas up front than to wait until construction has started.
