Leadership isn’t about being lucky; it’s about being intentional. When you decide to make excellence non-negotiable, your Team sees clarity, purpose, and unwavering standards. Great leaders don’t wait for perfect conditions. They create them by embracing the little decisions that add up to significant change. With disciplined focus, they turn ordinary teams into extraordinary ones.

Start with what you can control. Define your one pivotal outcome and write a clear definition of done. Assign ownership with deadlines. Each day, ask, “What disciplined action moves the needle?” Reject busy work and protect focus. Use regular check-ins to review leading indicators like progress, quality, and cycle time. Adapt through reflection, not reaction.

Lead by example. Keep promises to the minute. Ask better questions and listen deeper. Clear one obstruction every day. Celebrate the people who lighten others’ loads. Over time, your consistent choices build a culture where greatness isn’t an anomaly, it’s the standard.

Over ninety days, define one key outcome, act on it daily, track progress weekly, remove obstacles, and raise the standard of excellence across your Team.

Cities thrive when movement feels effortless. KONE focuses on people flow, turning elevators, escalators, and doors into seamless experiences that knit buildings to streets and communities to opportunity. By listening closely to users and customers, they design journeys that are simple, intuitive, and accessible for everyone.

Innovation powers reliability. Digital monitoring, predictive maintenance, and responsive service keep equipment ready when life happens. From the first sketch to modernization decades later, KONE unites design, technology, and craftsmanship to keep spaces welcoming, efficient, and resilient. When movement is predictable, tenants trust, owners sleep, and momentum never stalls.

Progress must also protect the future. KONE pursues safety as a discipline and sustainability as a promise, reducing energy use, extending lifecycles, and elevating accessibility. The result is not just vertical transport but better urban life, where time is saved, stress is lowered, and possibilities multiply floor by floor.

By designing people flow with safety, accessibility, and sustainability, KONE transforms buildings into experiences that move smoothly, inclusively, and reliably worldwide.

This week, crews launched early construction on the Hudson River Tunnel’s New Jersey portal, shifting lanes to build foundations and a staging yard. Work focuses on utility relocations, ground improvement, and support of excavation for future box jacking beneath Tonnelle Avenue. Short night closures and flagging maintain access while equipment and materials arrive.

Box jacking involves pushing a precast concrete structure through soil beneath a roadway, thereby avoiding extended surface closures. Secant pile walls and jet grouting stabilize the ground, and dewatering wells control groundwater. These methods create a safe envelope, allowing later rail tunnel drives and cross passages to connect without disrupting local traffic.

Delivering early works reduces risk and protects schedules for later TBM procurement, track, power, and ventilation fit-out. Residents should expect intermittent noise, detours, and changing patterns as crews pour slabs, set rebar cages, and test monitoring instruments. The outcome is more reliable rail service and resilient infrastructure for the Northeast Corridor.

By tracking closures, following detours, avoiding work zones, and planning trips, informed travelers can reduce delays and help crews maintain momentum safely.

Several states are opening Home Energy Rebate portals this week, directing billions toward heat pumps, weatherization, and electrification in existing homes. Unlike broad tax credits, these programs target measured energy savings and income tiers, often offering point-of-sale discounts that immediately lower homeowners ’ out-of-pocket costs. For residential contractors, this can shorten sales cycles, expand scopes, and firm up backlogs heading into winter.

Know the mechanics. Rebates typically require approved product lists, pre-installation audits, and post-installation verification by certified raters. Savings can stack with utility incentives and 45L where applicable, but paperwork must be sequenced correctly: reservation, scope approval, installation, then verification and payment. Margin risk sits in documentation errors, missed eligibility thresholds, and supply constraints for qualifying equipment.

Make it tactical this week. Enroll as a qualified contractor, align specs with eligible SEER2/HSPF2 equipment and insulation R-values, and prebuild bid templates that show customers net pricing after incentives. Coordinate schedules with raters and train crews to capture photos, serial numbers, and commissioning data cleanly.

Prequalify projects, train teams, align specs, register in portals, document baselines, and schedule audits to capture stacked rebate incentives early.

Good morning, Team!

Today, we are covering how to prevent strains and fatigue caused by repetitive tasks and awkward body positions.

Why It Matters

Repetitive motion and poor ergonomics lead to shoulder, wrist, and back injuries that develop slowly but can last a lifetime. Working bent, twisted, or reaching overhead increases muscle fatigue and the risk of soft-tissue damage.

Strategies for Safe Work Practices

Discussion Questions

Conclusion

Plan tasks, adjust work height, and rotate duties to protect muscles and joints.

Position it, pace it, work smart!