Category Archives: Tough economic times

Accountability Returns to Center Stage

By Jim Pirner | February 24, 2009

Recent events have returned the notion of accountability to our attention.  While we’d like to think that leaders of character never stray very far from always remembering the need to be accountable, the reality seems to be that there is a wax/wane cycle like the moon.  But the combination of the economic crisis of the [...]

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“I kept my crews together for a better day”

By Jim Pirner | January 2, 2009

It was late in the spring of 1981 when the owner of a small construction company that worked on highway construction jobs walked into a federal courthouse to face a federal grand jury that was looking into whether bid rigging had occurred on recent highway contracts in the area.  The man was understandably nervous.  He [...]

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