Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
Gratitude
Many airlines were having issues due to a CrowdStrike programming upgrade that led to a crippling shutdown of many systems throughout the country, affecting airlines, banks, and who knows how many other businesses.
No, I am not on your vacation (but I’m still glad you’re here)
The easiest thing we do by the end of August is to begin to resent some of our summer visitors. Looking at them from our native perspective, it's clear they aren’t too sure where they’re going and not too urgent to get there.
If There Isn’t Time to Do It Right….
Watch a successful artist or a master mechanic and you will see that they have a system that they follow to succeed. The enemy of success is impatience and those who succeed find the way to stay in their lane,
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John Wooden, American basketball player and head coach at UCLA
YOU GET WHAT YOU INSPECT, NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT!
In our role as supplier, we get a view into many of our customer's businesses . We see what works and we see what doesn't. The number one challenge, that can quickly turn into difficulty, is that of job definition.
“Work”
Work has been a standard feature of human life as long as we humans have existed. It puts food on our tables, it keeps order in our societies (well at least some order). It builds civilizations and sometimes it dismantles them.
Dollars for Change
Plenty is going on right now in our industry. Post Covid, supply chains have begun to catch up, commodity markets have settled down, and people are generally busy.