If you have been in business for a
while, you know that times are not
always good. The first sign of a slowdown
may come from a conversation
with an architect, who tells you how
little work is on the boards. Then
someone with whom you have been
planning a project for six months
decides to postpone construction
indefinitely. Before you know it, your
workload is so low that you can't keep
all your people employed, and you're
faced with the hard task of laying off
some of your crew.
What can you do to survive in lean
times? I always read articles like this
looking for the one thing that will put
my business in perfect