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Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Martin Dempsey - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently said “Three concentric crises: the pandemic, a depressed economy, racial injustice. In each an opportunity, more than that an obligation, to improve. We can’t...

Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. There are certain things you can do that no one else can. Perhaps it’s parenting, or constructing houses or encouraging the discouraged. Or leading your contracting companies through a tumultuous challenge such as this glob...

First, let me say Happy Memorial Day and a heartfelt Thank You to the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice, courageously losing their lives defending our freedoms. 🇺🇸 Let us never forget, “Our flag doesn’t fly because the wind moves it, but because of the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leaders...

Unreal #Story Today‼️ Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today I’d like to talk about a concept that I hold dear and one that I’ve completely embraced over the past year and a half - I’m a believer that your #behavior is a predictor of your #future 🔥 The story I relate in...

Hi everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today I’d like to talk to you about Self Awareness. Think of a leader who you look up to? Compare your actions to their actions and adapt those qualities that will benefit you in the long run. Self awareness is the foundatio...

Hi everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode titled "What's Your Peanut🥜⁉️" we discuss the story of the Boll Weevil and its unique and profound connection to Enterprise, Alabama.  The story is a great illustration of living in vision or living in circumstance. This is an ideal story for the challenges we al...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we discuss #Communication📱💻🖥🎙 and the new world we are doing business in. I’d like to share with you 4️⃣ Actionable #Strategies or Guiding #Principles that can not only direct you in times of challenge but also as you move forward in your life. I’m interested in knowing what strat...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we discuss #Disappointment through a story called "The Singing Parakeet🐦" Disappointment is at the tip of many of our tongues and on the forefront of most of our minds. We’ve had to tell our children that they will miss treasured experiences. We’ve had to tell friends we can’t shar...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we discuss #CoreFocus through a story called "Acres of Diamonds💎" In times like these, it doesn’t take much for an organization to get off track. I know right now #innovation is at the forefront of all of our minds, but it should not be the only thing in this VUCA world we are livi...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we talk about #COMMITMENT🔗 What does commitment mean to you? Inky Johnson has one of my favorite quotes in history and I think it has never been more appropriate contextually than it is right now. Inky says “Commitment is Staying True to What You Said You Would Do LONG After the Mo...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone as you continue to deal with the incredible #PAIN and uncertainty that the #Coronavirus has caused. Real people are dying. Our economy has died. Over 3 Million people are unemployed. People are h...

What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Praying for everyone out there as they continue to deal with the incredible uncertainty that the #Coronavirus has caused‼️ I’d ask that regardless of your personal beliefs, you continue to be #mindful of others. Mindf...

What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. What a week we’ve just endured, right? CORONAVIRUS‼️ Leadership is lonely especially in a time of crisis, but in all scenarios of crisis, we can learn. We can grow. We can inspire. So I’d ask that you… Be committed to...

What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Are you a parked car? In the immortal words of Tony Soprano “More is lost in indecision than in wrong decision.” If you feel like you're stuck in life, this #M3 session is for you. I heard the great Matthew Hussey dis...

What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today I discuss my #FiniteMindset. A mindset focused on wanting to be the best. About the need to be #Number1 in my profession…What I’ve concluded on a personal mastery level after self reflection is this... #Competition is #Boring. It is #Overrated. Say What? In today's episode I...

What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. I love the aspect of #marketing. Creating a #brand. In today’s lesson I’m asking you to take a closer look at your marketing strategy. Over my years in the construction industry, I’ve learned that very few contracting firms have marketing departments and even fewer have a strategy...

The goal of today’s interview was to not only give David the opportunity to discuss his vision for the NECA organization but more importantly to ask David the questions that seem to surface in hallways at national meetings, bar rooms of hotels and through email & text chains but are never really discussed in a broad forum. Today you’ll get to learn those answers straight from the David’s mouth. I...

What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today’s lesson is near and dear to my ❤️ as it’s honestly been a source of #CompetitiveAdvantage for Chad Jones and I at the Western PA NECA Chapter and also throughout the growth of The NEXT Academy. I’m referring to the concept of speed and staying on offense.🔥🔥🔥 Hear #JeffBe...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today’s episode is about turning your “Shoulds to Musts”…a strategy I learned from the great #TonyRobbins. Now is a good time to check in with you all those New Years resolutions. We are roughly 40 days into the New Year. How are you doing? I recognize that some of you might have slipped off your path...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today’s lesson is built on Tim & Brian Kights E+R=O philosophy, what I feel is Life's Equation for Success. I first heard of the concept when I read Urban Meyer’s book “Above the Line”…I was instantly drawn to this simple yet impactful approach. This methodology is now being taught in classrooms,...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In the NEXT Academy our 3rd Foundation is titled Innovation & Disruption for a VUCA World. The union construction world is subject to a dizzying rate of change. And as leaders in the 21st construction industry we must be equipped to handle it. Today’s lesson is on #NecessaryReinvention and Hiroshi...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. 151,600⁉️ What does that number represent? Today’s lesson is on #Gratitude and that number…is how many people on average die each day. Ask yourself this…What in my life am I truly #grateful for? As #RobinSharma likes to say “Gratitude drives #Happiness. Happiness boosts #Productivity. Productivity rev...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery (M3) powered by The NEXT Academy. In today's episode we're going to challenge you to take a closer look at your company's #Safety...No, not that kind of safety! I'm talking the creation of a #PsychologicalSafeSpace within your organization to allow employees the opportunity to speak and share freely. Ask yourself this…What kind of #culture have you fostered in you...

Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery (M3) powered by The NEXT Academy. In today's episode we're going to challenge you to shift your #Mindset and confront your #LimitingBeliefs by extracting lessons from the cautionary tale of "Mohini the Tiger." What past limitations - real or perceived - are you carrying as baggage? Where in your life are you pacing in a 10x10 foot patch of grass? Oftentimes, every...