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New Century Consulting specializes in site selection, forward planning, entitlement processing, community outreach, marketing and project monitoring for builders, developers and investors. We maintain a particular focus on projects in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino & Imperial counties in California, and now Kitsap & King Counties in Washington state. Please visit our web site to view what our clients say about us at:
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Ten bold predictions for 2014: The 'fend for yourself' year
Prognosticators of yore had it different. If what they foresaw turned out to be correct, they could stay in the prediction business for another season of prophecy fun and games. If, however, their forecasts strayed in some way from what eventually went down, were even a little imprecise, say, about the timing of the arrival of a plague or a rain storm, these seers typically wound up being a little dead.
So, it did not profit the prophet to be less than bold in his or her declarations of salvation or doom, victory or defeat, trouble or triumph ahead. If you're going to lose your head if you're wrong, even just a little wrong, or even thought to be just a little wrong, by all means, bold was the way to go with one's predictions.
We'll have none of this logical, incremental, evolutionary pussyfooting around that passes for forecasting these days. That's like looking at tea leaves and uttering "Oolong" or "Darjeeling" and leaving it at that, which is only helpful if you're allergic to or can't stand the taste of Keemun.
Why go out on a limb at all if the limb is only three feet off the ground and there's nothing to gain or lost if one falls?
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The New American Home Takes Project Management to a New Level
Builder Josh Anderson navigates the twists and turns of constructing the country's most celebrated showhome.
By Jennifer Goodman The construction of the 2014 New American Home has been more of a challenge than builder Josh Anderson ever imagined. He knew that pulling together the multifaceted project of national magnitude, with dozens of product suppliers and sponsors would not be easy. He would be working with a pre-determined project team-including an architect and interior designers he'd never met before-to build a 6,700-square-foot home certified to more than a half-dozen green building programs. Perhaps the biggest hurdle was the deadline: the house had to be completed in time to welcome thousands of building pros and national and international press coverage at the 2014 International Builders' Show (IBS), taking place Feb. 4-6 in Las Vegas. Even knowing all of these factors ahead of time, 35-year-old Anderson, owner of Henderson, Nev.-based Element Building Co., says he couldn't have imagined what lay ahead when he signed on in fall 2012 to the project, which is co-sponsored by BUILDER and the NAHB.
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3 Traits That Can Make or Break a Businessperson
BY John Patrick PullenIt's easy to feel confident when you have a highlight-reel résumé like Jeremy Bloom's. But any self-made businessperson will tell you that it's not what you've done, but how you did
it that matters most. Entrepreneurs may not have common personality traits, but they do share a small set of similar psychological characteristics, says Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman, author of The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. While conducting research for the book, which incorporates data from 10,000 business founders, Wasserman continually encountered three characteristics displayed by entrepreneurs: passion, confidence and representativeness. Balancing each, he says, "is the critical art for founders to have." 1. Passion. "A lot of the early magic comes from the founder's passion," Wasserman says. Infectious enthusiasm can get outsiders to buy into an idea early on. But if left unbridled, it will have the company looking skyward, while ignoring obvious obstacles at eye level. 2. Confidence. This key characteristic can carry startups when morale is low, enabling founders to persevere in the face of adversity or doubt. But merging high confidence with strong passion can be dangerous. "It means founders are only looking at the rosy scenarios," Wasserman says. "They definitely tend not to look at worst-case scenarios, potential pitfalls and ways in which bumps in the road can lead to shattering the dream." 3. Representativeness. The ability to reference past experience against a company's current challenges can help founders overcome struggles at hand. But being overly reliant on knowledge gathered in previous endeavors can also cause entrepreneurs to underestimate future obstacles.
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