Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead and coming off a great 4th of July 🇺🇸 holiday. To make any profound change in your life you need to understand your #WHY. You’re reason for doing it. And the reasons need to be strong. We are all on a journey through life. You know that, I know that. A bus ride 🚌 that started many years ago. So how do we maximize our wi...
Jul 06, 2020•7 min
Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today I’m going to talk to you about a recent discussion I had with one of my mentors and a question that he asked that both confused me and ultimately reignited my passion to reach my goals. Are you #INTERESTED or are you #COMMITTED? LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE TO UNDERSTAND THE CRITICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO! Thank you...
Jun 29, 2020•5 min
Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today I’m going to talk to you about the Coffee Bean. This concept comes from the book by Jon Gordon and Damon West. It is so applicable to all walks of life and can help you as contractors transform your environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change. Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and...
Jun 22, 2020•4 min
Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today's episode is about #TheAxe and THE SECRET TO SUCCESS‼️ Andy Frisella - CEO of 1st Phorm, recently told this great story and I think it's easily relatable to our listeners and participants at The NEXT Academy. There are four aspects to making an axe effective: #1 EFFORT #2 CONSISTENCY #3 SELF-AWARENESS & PERSONAL...
Jun 15, 2020•5 min
Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Martin Dempsey - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently said “Three concentric crises: the pandemic, a depressed economy, racial injustice. In each an opportunity, more than that an obligation, to improve. We can’t settle for back to normal. We must be “better than normal.” If not now, when?” Now is the time for e...
Jun 08, 2020•5 min
Hi everyone... Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. There are certain things you can do that no one else can. Perhaps it’s parenting, or constructing houses or encouraging the discouraged. Or leading your contracting companies through a tumultuous challenge such as this global pandemic that we’ve all been facing for months now. When you finally accept and embrace your natu...
Jun 01, 2020•5 min
Episode 6️⃣ of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ is out NOW‼️ In today’s episode, Chad and Cody take a look at Patrick Lencioni’s classic book “The Motive.” In The Motive , Lencioni shifts his attention toward helping you understand the importance of why you’re leading in the first place. In essence, leadership is leading teams and managing people. It has to be about “what you can give, not what you can get.” Today Chad & Cody pick out leadership lessons that they feel can help contractors create a competitive a...
May 29, 2020•30 min•Season 3Ep. 6
First, let me say Happy Memorial Day and a heartfelt Thank You to the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice, courageously losing their lives defending our freedoms. 🇺🇸 Let us never forget, “Our flag doesn’t fly because the wind moves it, but because of the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. This We...
May 25, 2020•6 min
Unreal #Story Today‼️ Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today I’d like to talk about a concept that I hold dear and one that I’ve completely embraced over the past year and a half - I’m a believer that your #behavior is a predictor of your #future 🔥 The story I relate in this episode really hit home for me and I know it will for you as well‼️ I challenge you to embrace...
May 18, 2020•7 min
Hi everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Today I’d like to talk to you about Self Awareness. Think of a leader who you look up to? Compare your actions to their actions and adapt those qualities that will benefit you in the long run. Self awareness is the foundation of personal growth and success. Only when we reach that point in life can we be the person we desi...
May 11, 2020•6 min
Hi everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode titled "What's Your Peanut🥜⁉️" we discuss the story of the Boll Weevil and its unique and profound connection to Enterprise, Alabama. The story is a great illustration of living in vision or living in circumstance. This is an ideal story for the challenges we all face in our current climate. When the boll weevil wiped out an area's dominant crop, cotton, in the earl...
May 04, 2020•6 min
Episode 5️⃣ of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ is out NOW‼️ In today’s episode, Chad and Cody take a look at Ryan Holiday’s classic book “The Obstacle is the Way.” Ryan has a unique way of turning a subject like stoicism that is quite scary for many of us into an easily digestible and actionable leadership guidebook. I encourage all of you to pick it up. We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by icons of history - from John D. Rockefeller ...
Apr 29, 2020•35 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we discuss #Communication📱💻🖥🎙 and the new world we are doing business in. I’d like to share with you 4️⃣ Actionable #Strategies or Guiding #Principles that can not only direct you in times of challenge but also as you move forward in your life. I’m interested in knowing what strategies are working for you in your personal and professional life during these trying times? Please...
Apr 27, 2020•10 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we discuss #Disappointment through a story called "The Singing Parakeet🐦" Disappointment is at the tip of many of our tongues and on the forefront of most of our minds. We’ve had to tell our children that they will miss treasured experiences. We’ve had to tell friends we can’t share in birthday celebrations. We’ve had to tell parents we can’t visit them in the hospitals. We’ve ha...
Apr 20, 2020•7 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we discuss #CoreFocus through a story called "Acres of Diamonds💎" In times like these, it doesn’t take much for an organization to get off track. I know right now #innovation is at the forefront of all of our minds, but it should not be the only thing in this VUCA world we are living in. Businesses can easily become distracted by opportunities that are wolves in sheep‘s clothing....
Apr 13, 2020•6 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In today's episode we talk about #COMMITMENT🔗 What does commitment mean to you? Inky Johnson has one of my favorite quotes in history and I think it has never been more appropriate contextually than it is right now. Inky says “Commitment is Staying True to What You Said You Would Do LONG After the Mood that You Said it in Has Left!!!!” I love that. And It’s been my reality so many times. It hits ho...
Apr 06, 2020•7 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone as you continue to deal with the incredible #PAIN and uncertainty that the #Coronavirus has caused. Real people are dying. Our economy has died. Over 3 Million people are unemployed. People are hurting. I’d ask that regardless of your personal beliefs, that you’re mindful of others. Mindful of ...
Mar 30, 2020•6 min
Episode 4️⃣ of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣‼️ In today’s episode, Chad and Cody take a look at the impact of the #Coronavirus and #COVID19 on our industry while analyzing Jocko Willink’s new book “Leadership Strategy & Tactics.” Jocko explains how to take leadership theory, quickly translate that theory into applicable strategy, and then put leadership into action at a tactical level. I think this is a valuable book and very well could be a solution for leaders at every level―not just to understand the lead...
Mar 27, 2020•36 min•Season 3Ep. 4
What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Praying for everyone out there as they continue to deal with the incredible uncertainty that the #Coronavirus has caused‼️ I’d ask that regardless of your personal beliefs, you continue to be #mindful of others. Mindful of their individual & unique circumstances. Continue to show compassion and support. I felt t...
Mar 23, 2020•8 min
What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. What a week we’ve just endured, right? CORONAVIRUS‼️ Leadership is lonely especially in a time of crisis, but in all scenarios of crisis, we can learn. We can grow. We can inspire. So I’d ask that you… Be committed to lifting others up. Encourage. Show empathy. Do not let negativity win today. Remember it starts wit...
Mar 16, 2020•6 min
What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. As always I hope this finds you ready to attack the week ahead. Are you a parked car? In the immortal words of Tony Soprano “More is lost in indecision than in wrong decision.” If you feel like you're stuck in life, this #M3 session is for you. I heard the great Matthew Hussey discuss the concept of indecision that many of us face using an analogy of a parked car. I think you wi...
Mar 09, 2020•6 min
What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today I discuss my #FiniteMindset. A mindset focused on wanting to be the best. About the need to be #Number1 in my profession…What I’ve concluded on a personal mastery level after self reflection is this... #Competition is #Boring. It is #Overrated. Say What? In today's episode I'll explain. Ask yourself this…Do I spend too much time focused on the competition? Do I have the a ...
Mar 02, 2020•7 min
What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. I love the aspect of #marketing. Creating a #brand. In today’s lesson I’m asking you to take a closer look at your marketing strategy. Over my years in the construction industry, I’ve learned that very few contracting firms have marketing departments and even fewer have a strategy with regard to building their brand. I'm hoping I can prove today that it’s important to be thought...
Feb 24, 2020•5 min
The goal of today’s interview was to not only give David the opportunity to discuss his vision for the NECA organization but more importantly to ask David the questions that seem to surface in hallways at national meetings, bar rooms of hotels and through email & text chains but are never really discussed in a broad forum. Today you’ll get to learn those answers straight from the David’s mouth. I think an important leadership lesson here is that oftentimes the guy at the top doesn’t hear the...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 19 min
What’s up everyone...Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today’s lesson is near and dear to my ❤️ as it’s honestly been a source of #CompetitiveAdvantage for Chad Jones and I at the Western PA NECA Chapter and also throughout the growth of The NEXT Academy. I’m referring to the concept of speed and staying on offense.🔥🔥🔥 Hear #JeffBezos thoughts on what it means to be a "Day 1 Company" and why #ChrisSacca chose to "Go on Offense" e...
Feb 17, 2020•5 min
HAPPY ❤️ DAY TO ALL YOU LOVE BIRDS OUT THERE 🤣 Episode 3️⃣ of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ is LIVE‼️ In today’s episode, Chad and Cody analyze Simon Sinek’s book “The Infinite Game.” Sinek helps us remember the basics; very important basics. He did this with his book Start with Why. And he does it again with his new book, The Infinite Game. Today’s episode (and this book) should rally those who are ready to challenge that status quo and replace it with a reality that is vastly more conducive to our deep-seated...
Feb 14, 2020•45 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today’s episode is about turning your “Shoulds to Musts”…a strategy I learned from the great #TonyRobbins. Now is a good time to check in with you all those New Years resolutions. We are roughly 40 days into the New Year. How are you doing? I recognize that some of you might have slipped off your path already and let me give you some insight that I think may help you get back on track. Ask yourself ...
Feb 10, 2020•5 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. Today’s lesson is built on Tim & Brian Kights E+R=O philosophy, what I feel is Life's Equation for Success. I first heard of the concept when I read Urban Meyer’s book “Above the Line”…I was instantly drawn to this simple yet impactful approach. This methodology is now being taught in classrooms, corporations and on athletic fields throughout the country. My hope is that I’m getting ready to int...
Feb 03, 2020•5 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. In the NEXT Academy our 3rd Foundation is titled Innovation & Disruption for a VUCA World. The union construction world is subject to a dizzying rate of change. And as leaders in the 21st construction industry we must be equipped to handle it. Today’s lesson is on #NecessaryReinvention and Hiroshi Mikitani's valuable rule of 3 and 10. Ask yourself this…Have you outgrown your systems or beliefs? ...
Jan 27, 2020•5 min
Welcome to Monday Morning Mastery powered by The NEXT Academy - leadership built for contractors. 151,600⁉️ What does that number represent? Today’s lesson is on #Gratitude and that number…is how many people on average die each day. Ask yourself this…What in my life am I truly #grateful for? As #RobinSharma likes to say “Gratitude drives #Happiness. Happiness boosts #Productivity. Productivity reveals #Mastery. And Mastery inspires the World.“ Open your eyes and seek the #blessings. I look forwa...
Jan 20, 2020•5 min
