A mentor’s purpose is to help you grow as a person and become the best version of yourself. This may involve helping you achieve personal or career goals, introducing you to new ways of thinking, challenging your limiting assumptions, sharing valuable life lessons and much more. A mentor helps you grow your skills, make better decisions and gain new perspectives
In Part 1 of the “2022 Profile of the Electrical Contractor,” we described how the rollercoaster of the last two years have forced electrical contractors’ confidence downward, even as most have reported maintaining their staffs at 2020 levels. In Part 2, we focus on different aspects of ECs’ work: how they build their teams, who they work with and how
Progress through politics comes in awkward jumbles. On Aug. 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376). The legislation represented about a year of back-and-forth negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a moderate who had become the biggest hurdle to his own party’s ambitious political objectives.
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According to a study released in PLoS One, a scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science, between 12 million and 64 million birds are killed every year by U.S. power lines.
To help address this problem, Duke Energy announced in July 2022 that it is converting two electrical transmission towers into nesting platforms for bald eagles at the
If we had to choose one word to characterize our current global industrial climate, it just might be “anxiety.” There’s daily trepidation about whether the U.S. economy is being hurled into a recession and if inflationary pressures are taking enough grip to make it so. But the Federal Reserve is hesitant to say so and has put the brakes on
Contractors face many challenges running their businesses today, including employee retention, supply chain concerns and more. But there are mixed answers when identifying their biggest concern.
According to the results of a survey released in July 2022 by frontline digital workplace WorkJam, employee shortages and turnover are more worrying for leaders than supply chain issues. Forty-eight percent of executives from