Awards
Awards
Entries Closing Soon for Best in American Living Awards
Custom builders have only one week left to submit their projects for recognition
Awards
Three Custom Homes Honored by Best in American Living Awards
These three custom homes stood out in the Best in American Living Awards for their site sensitivity and attention to detail
Awards
Home Design: A Mellower Modern
Three New England contemporary homes show modern architecture's softer side
Awards
Impeccable Execution
These custom homes captured top honors in the 2017 Best in American Living Awards with their brillant synthesis of design and craftsmanship
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Leadership by the numbers: What’s yours?
Leadership is a numbers game. The equation revolves around how many people you can positively impact on a daily basis. That is, how many people…
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Housing Giants are back!
My eight-year-old son was asked recently about what I do. After describing my activities, typing on the computer and talking on the phone, he finally…
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The feed vs. the hunt
My son is six years-old. It’s a fun age. Witnessing your progeny develop original thoughts on shared topics is a trip. My son is starting to…
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Rosetta Stone, relevance, and retention
Living in a small sliver of the language pie Rosetta Stone enlarged, we owe a debt of gratitude to the public company. Rosetta has been shelling…
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“We’ve done this a lot. You...as a group…are stupid.”
Last week I went to the Chicago filming of “America’s Got Talent”, the NBC show that accepts all comers who don’t make it on American Idol, X…
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The “knowledge worker” rant
I despise the term Knowledge Worker. Why? Let’s start with the definition of Knowledge Worker and you can judge for yourself. Knowledge workers…
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Be like Mat: Go big
Comas :: 2 Broken bones :: 21 Surgeries :: 23 Concussions :: 100+ Stitches :: 300+ You don’t become the…
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Text Mex: Meet ‘em where they are
Would you ever use Twitter to announce your family dinner is being served? Ridiculous question, right? Wait. Hold that answer…. The question was…
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The Inverse Golden Rule + 3 CYA tools when working with Hispanics
You know The Golden Rule, right? He who has the gold makes the rules. On the jobsite today, there is an inverse to The Golden Rule: He who has…
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“I see dead people” + 3 other common sensibilities
M. Night Shyamalan, the director of The 6th Sense, was opposed to including what has become one of the most memorable movie lines of all-time “I see…