
CGP
- Jul 29, 2019
Blue is the New White
More Options than College College is not the only career path forward after high school, and in fact, can be costly and ineffective when compared to a path like skilled labor. That’s the message in Josh Zolin’s book “Blue Is the New White, the Best Path to Success No One Told You About - Until Now.” Zolin stopped by the FM Evolution podcast to discuss his book and revealed the entire project started with a search for technicians. With his father, Zolin owns Windy City Equipme

FM Evolution
- Jul 22, 2019
Simplifying the Keys to Success
With Josh Zolin Sometimes, the best business strategy is to watch a master at work and take note of what they do in order to follow in their footsteps. That’s precisely what we’re doing today in our interview with Josh Zolin of Windy City Equipment. In addition to running this facilities management and equipment repair company, Josh is an author, speaker, and authority on business practices and success. This is exactly the kind of person that we should be following. Josh focu

FM Evolution
- Jul 15, 2019
Servant Leadership in Facility Management
When we looked back over the past 19 episodes, we noticed a recurring theme bubbling to the surface. It’s fitting too, because this theme is what our parent company, CGP Maintenance and Construction Services is all about: Servant Leadership. Each episode has been focused on different aspects of our common field, construction, but like clockwork, we have naturally gravitated toward interviews with people displaying our core value. Because of this common thread, we decided to d

FM Evolution
- Jul 8, 2019
What's Next in Smart Water Management?
What’s next in smart water management? Adam Bartman with Reed water.io says it's them. Reed Water helps businesses and commercial spaces, “Control & monitor the leading brands of shut-off valves, meters and leak sensors - for flood prevention and more efficient operation and detect potential water damage threats and manage them through the intuitive cloud dashboard, from anywhere in the world.” Interested? We were too. So, how did this begin? Adam shared that he has always be

FM Evolution
- Jul 2, 2019
The Importance of Design in Commercial Properties
with Megan Pucak We are used to talking about the more technical and large-scale facets of what we do in the facilities management and construction world, but we rarely get to dive into one of the more complex and detailed areas of our industry: interior design. We know an element is an integral part of what we do when we don’t notice a space with it but we are completely unsettled in its absence. This is what we’re talking about today with our special guest, Megan Pucak! We
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