by Bruce Baker | Sep 8, 2026 | General
You are winning work and your crews are busy, but the business runs off whatever caught fire that morning. Jobs slip a few weeks. Overhead drifts past budget before anyone catches it. You are the only one who knows how a quote becomes a scheduled job, and it all lives...
by Bruce Baker | Sep 8, 2026 | General
You already have the business. Revenue is coming in, the crew is on payroll, the phone rings. The problem is that none of it runs without you standing in the middle of it, answering the same questions, chasing the same job, catching the same fire you caught last week....
by Bruce Baker | Sep 8, 2026 | General
You bought Traction, ran it for a quarter or two, and the meetings started to feel like homework. Or you looked at EOS, saw the rocks and the scorecard and the level ten meeting, and thought: this was built for a software firm, not a framing crew. If you are hunting...
by Bruce Baker | Sep 6, 2026 | General
In July I looked at 62 Alberta trades and construction companies and asked one question of each of them: what actually happens when a customer with money in hand tries to buy something from you. Not what happens on the phone. Not what happens once you are on site....
by Bruce Baker | Sep 4, 2026 | General
You are running a job on-site while a text lands from your lawyer. A support calculation. A disclosure deadline. A dispute you did not ask for. Your body is on the jobsite. Your head is three provinces away, tangled in something that has nothing to do with the crew...
