One of the most important lessons I learned in my landscape business is that trying to find and hire excellent leaders was going to take me a lifetime. We must continually invest in developing leaders in our company, especially the 5 leadership skills that are critical to successful foremen.

“The projects are always taking longer than I expected when I submitted pricing” – seems like every contractor has this sentence at the tip of their tongue when they start to discuss estimating….. but is it possible that it all started with the estimate as opposed to the “delays” starting during the project?

There are several ways to setup your business so that you don’t compete on price, but lets look at the one of the most important ways: differentiation. If you can differentiate yourself from your competitors, you don’t have to compete with them on price. See this article for a great video explaining differentiation.