Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
December 2014 – Keep Youself On Solid Ground
As we near the end of the year, it’s a good time to take stock of the lessons we have learned to date. As a materials dealer, we get an insight into many of our customer’s businesses, and some of the lessons they learn, often times the...
November 2014 – The Devil We Know
I thought that as an un-enrolled independent voter, I might be spared the onslaught of campaign phone calls telling me who or what to vote for. I was wrong. As we approach election night, the pace has really quickened. Naively, I thought...
October 2014 – Chess Instead of Checkers
History has an incredible way of repeating itself. As much as every generation thinks it is sailing new directions into undiscovered and uncharted waters, most everything we do has been done before, and probably more than...
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
Larry King, American Television and Radio Host
August 2014 – The Power of Unintended Consequences (Part II)
Some times, after a lot of initial panic, things work out the way they’re supposed to. As the July deadline for Shepformation approached, the MA House and Senate had set a 6 person committee to look at budget differences between the House...
July 2014 – The Power of Unintended Consequences (Part I)
Two legislative initiatives, in current process, that really show the power of unintended consequences are: the move in the Massachusetts State Senate to mandate sprinkler systems in all 1-2 family dwellings; and the federal FEMA...
June 2014 – Why Isn’t Common Sense More Common?
Do you ever feel like we may be “dumbing down”? Common sense must work in cycles and in the cases below, it looks like we’re not at the top of the common sense curve. Exhibit A- A tag found on a hair dryer at Sears: “Do not use while...