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Your most talented employees are probably a pain to manage. They frustrate you because they challenge you. Their very competence, confidence and...

Trench work is inherently dangerous, but you can mitigate the risk.Trench boxes are among the protective systems that can be used in...

Creating a workplace culture that attracts the brightest and best talent is no small task. To accomplish and sustain this, Maryland-based Pleasants...

Hydroexcavation is often promoted as a safer method of excavation — and in almost all ways it is. But that doesn’t mean...

Many business owners today simply do not adequately plan their succession. Reasons for procrastination vary and include not wanting to leave or...

Exit interviews are often used to find out why departing employees flew the coop. Business professor John Sullivan proposes a better strategy:...

The Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a national nonprofit trade association dedicated to protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near...

If you’ve been in the trades for a while, you’ve probably been asked to take someone under your wing and teach them...

Dalton Coveyou has not been in business long, having founded his company Hotshots Drain Cleaning of Petoskey, Michigan, only a year ago,...

Most people are told at an early age that if they have nothing nice to say, they should say nothing at all....

These days, we’re all sort of culturally conditioned to believe we have to be all things to all people. And when you’re...

After I graduated college, I got an entry-level job at a manufacturing plant. I lifted and carried heavy things all day. Even...

From the moment you acquire a piece of heavy equipment to the moment you sell it, one thing must remain at the...

Equipment maintenance is never a trivial matter, but when it comes to directional drilling, it perhaps carries a bit of extra weight. That’s...