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Self-auditing: perhaps we should look at ourselves just as we monitor our plants
One of the in-things our environmental manager has been practicing recently has been self-audits. These are periodic walkthroughs in which an...
Concrete Producer, The, 09/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way! Leadership comes in handy when the going gets tough
How many times have we heard that slogan? One reason for an organization's success is how it develops a work environment where everyone is involved...
Concrete Producer, The, 08/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Keeping it honest: your ethics are as important as the quality of your material
Do you ever give thanks for the amount of work you get? In the last few years there are very few days most of us aren't dispatching truckloads of...
Concrete Producer, The, 07/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Talking away: we've gone from low-band radios to hands-free cellphones
Driving on the freeway one day, the dispatcher squawked me on the two-way, asking directions to a new job I had just signed up. We were to make...
Concrete Producer, The, 05/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Agents of travel: more women are become dispatchers for concrete producers
I don't know about you, but for me, weekends are meant for running errands and taking care of whatever I didn't have time to do during the week....
Concrete Producer, The, 04/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
When worlds collide: merging two producer is stressful for employee, but also presents opportunity
Business is great. You've sold several jobs for ABC Ready Mix that contain large amounts of concrete. You process all of the information on the...
Concrete Producer, The, 03/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Out of the blocks: ever more ways to use this versatile building material
It's important to start training while they're young. This was the premise I worked on last Christmas. It's important to start training while...
Concrete Producer, The, 02/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Music to producers' ears: Tennessee, the home of country music, is turning to concrete paving for a variety of projects
Several months ago, a large freighter with containers stacked five or six high was about to enter the Port of Savannah in Georgia. Thousands of...
Concrete Producer, The, 01/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Boxed in: tilt-up building are great places to keep lots of stuff
I'm a big fan of comedian George Carlin. In one of his famous routines, he talks about "stuff." I'm a big fan of comedian George Carlin. In one...
Concrete Producer, The, 01/01/06 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication -
Tackling safety issues: develop good safety habits early in your career
Football practice was starting one afternoon as I was strolling by the local high school. Standing by the fence watching the grunting, tackling,...
Concrete Producer, The, 11/01/05 by Jimmy Ambrose · More from publication
