Biting Honesty
On the morning of January 2nd, 2016, my wife and my good friend drove to Shenanigan's on the Tacoma waterfront to enjoy a 25-year-old tradition of New Year's brunch at one of our favorite restaurants.
5X the Enthusiasm Beats the Bid
In the fall of 2015 we were wrapping up the completion of Phase I of a private water works plant in northwest Washington. My team was installing new water services for Phase I.
The Risk of Growing
Several years ago, our son, Larry Jr. and I visited Sea World, the life-size aquarium on the Seattle boardwalk. While I was there, I learned some interesting things about the hard shell lobster. Before that day, learning how lobsters grow had never been high on my list of priorities.
Old-Fashioned Customer Service
Just wanted to share with you an incident I was involved with yesterday, and the outcome. A resident on one of our projects in North Portland posted a comment to Facebook and I commented on it. Here is the exchange:
Involve Your Crew to Stay on Track
Over the last few weeks, my crew have brought to my attention that some of the proper tools and materials needed to perform the day's work were not getting loaded into the crew vehicles and delivered to our job sites.
The Impossible Dream
On March 19, 1996, my wife, Sylvia, and my youngest son, Joseph, watched as I walked down the aisle to receive my engineering degree.
The Sound of Silence
At the conclusion of a full, challenging day with the Board of Directors of one of our client organizations, I asked Mike, one of my partners who has co-facilitated dozens, if not hundreds, of events with me over the past 5 years...
Taking Responsibility Grows Confidence
In 2008 I was working for a masonry sub-contractor on the construction of a large grocery store in Puyallup, WA. As the walls got higher, we began asking for information...
Full Engagement Beats the Bid
The Newberg Dundee bypass is a very important project for our company. One of my Foremen on the project was not fully engaged.
Brain Overload
Last week I was sitting at my computer looking at the week ahead. It was Friday and I was really thinking that I was going to have to work Saturday.
Larry W. Dennis, Sr. President,
Turbo Leadership Systems©