Kicking Off a Major Anniversary
Congratulations! That is to say, congratulations to those reading this article, knowing that you and your company are members of the Concrete Foundations Association, an organization that turns its golden anniversary in 2025. Fifty years of existence is an impressive mark. Looking back on those fifty years reveals the staggering perseverance, endurance, patience, and tenacious […]
CFACON24 – The Risks Worth Taking
As your executive director now for the past decade and having participated in your journey since 2001, I have experienced some wonderful examples of this Association taking calculated risks that pay great dividends. In this rich history, planning a summer convention in the remote parts of northwest Oregon was quite challenging. Committing to an extensive […]
It is Hard to Believe
June is here and with it a rush of activity in most of your businesses and the CFA. June is the last month of our fiscal year. It is the last month of significant work to get CFACON24 right. It is also the first true month of summer and the myriad of conflicts surrounding key […]
An Issue to Sink Your Teeth Into
James Baty jbaty@cfaconcretepros.org As a reader of Concrete Facts, whether this is your first issue or you have been appreciating its content for a while, I hope you can sense the diligence that goes in to making each of these quarterly issues impactful to your business. They are designed to inspire, designed to challenge, designed […]
The Challenge of Time
The calendar is telling me it is December, and I’m still trying to convince myself it can be true. How is it that 2023 is nearly over, and by the time you are reading this, 2024 has likely arrived? I hear this in nearly every conversation where I get the chance to catch up with […]
Falling Out of Line
Convention is over and autumn is here. On the pages of this magazine, you get to feel some of the energy that is still flowing from the great even that CFACON23 in San Antonio generated. There was so much energy generated that some of you have reached out to us multiple times about when the […]
Words of Aspiration
Español | Translation Provided by the CFA This issue comes to you at the end of Q2 2023. In many ways, it is hard for me to write this. The lingering winter weather seemed to transform into May in an instant. Likewise, the market reversed the radical break that was induced last September, and companies […]
What Does the Board Say…
Español | Translation Provided by the CFA We live in a very complex world where business and personal lives do not mix as much as they once did. Yet, all aspects of our lives are stretched to the very limits of their respective capacities, resulting in challenging decisions to be made every step of the […]
Moving in the Face of Adversity
Español | Translation Provided by the CFA Some of the most impactful dates that come frequently to my mind include, in no particular order: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Challenger explosion, President Ronald Reagan being shot, 9-11, my marriage, graduation day from college, the births of our three children, the Great Recession, and […]
Commitment to Excellence
Español | Translation Provided by the CFA As a regular reader of Concrete Facts, I hope you recall the article announcing the retirement of our long-time staff member, Janette Barr (Concrete Facts 29-2, winter 2022, p. 23). As we published that article, I was considering the impact of employment transitions I have been experiencing through […]
