A few weeks ago, I was talking to a local earthwork contractor about how his business was doing this year. He said it was okay but his biggest problem was a new worker who was sometimes causing him to pull his hair out. After a little while, it was...

Every outfit, from a residential contractor to a restaurant to manufacturing plant, knows that their success and stability lies within their employees. Yet there are still businesses, usually small to midsized, that set themselves up to fail because ...