Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
October – Fine Print
Fine print: the art of camouflaging warnings, disclaimers, or limits as innocent sounding background noise. Let’s face it, our world elevated fine print to an art form today. Listen to a pharmaceutical ad and the soothing voice delivering...
August – Just Do It
We can never fix the past but knowing that doesn’t keep us from mourning it. At the beginning of July, we all lost a great friend and coworker of 30 years, Rob Taylor. Rob was a great Shepley success story. He started on our loading docks,...
July – Freedom Isn’t Free
Every other year I have the good fortune to go to the Naval War College in Newport, RI, to participate in the Current Strategy Forum that is held just before their June graduation. The Naval War College is far more than college kids. It...
“All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.”
Hal Borland
June – Containerized Shipping and How It’s Changed Our World
History will remember the 20th Century as the beginning of a much smaller world, with the shrinking of our planet brought on by advances in communication, the Internet, and international shipping. As simple a concept as the shipping...
March – Contracts
In our role as a supplier we get a view into several thousand of our customer’s businesses. We have the privilege of seeing what works and the lessons of what doesn’t. Congratulations, you made it through the worst...
January – Happy Birthday HBRACC
What is older than NASA and was born the year before 1951’s African Queen was filmed, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn? 1950 was an important year for a lot of things including the invasion of South Korea by...