Matt is not dead. He was sick, traveling, and busier than he has been in a long time, and the show went quiet for about a month.In this short comeback episode, he owns the irony: he tellsowners to…
The Denver recap. Three days locked in a boardroom with my board of advisors, six owners who can't get out of their own seats.I'm wearing three hats on our accountability chart, androughly a third of…
Waiting for construction costs to come back down is themost expensive decision an owner can make.Labor is a demographic problem, not a cyclical one. A market correction will never unretire someone.…
Eight construction company owners. None of them work for me. None of them can fire me. All of them have seen my financials.Next week I fly to Denver to spend three days in a room with my board of…
Tomorrow I write a check for $20,000 to the Southeast Michigan Construction Academy, to be cut up into scholarships for people entering trade school. I do not know yet where it lands. I am fine with…
Twelve months before I lost my temper on a phone call, I made the decision that actually caused the problem.A hire made out of desperation. A client who was a bulldog, and I knew it before I signed. A…
Bill Reiman did not inherit RK Reiman Construction. He earned it, over roughly twenty years, and he and his brother onlybecame owners three years ago. In this episode he walks through the whole arc:…
One Friday, three business lessons. Matt recaps the 2026 Schafer Summer Smash: why an awkward company party means you are still growing, why culture is who stays to help load the coolers, and what it…
Jeff Lomber spent 23 years as an employee at Acme Enterprises before giving the owner an ultimatum, sketching a deal on the back of a napkin in Vegas, and buying the company himself. Jeff and Matt get…
Heather Krill did not apply for a job here. She researched us, decided this was where she wanted to work, knocked on the door, and was told we were not hiring. She asked to sit downanyway. Two years…
