Good Advice Inside

Did you know that good advice works best when it's implemented? Our Owner, Bridget Pulsifer, was part of the conversation at the Women's Leadership Live 2020 Tour, held in tandem with the release of the "Where Women Create WORK: Women Working For A Stronger America" special edition magazine. The purpose of the tour was to highlight women business owners and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. The event was recorded, so we have a clip from that segment with some good advice.

Bridget talks about her pre-Mills career and some of the best advice she implemented to lead Mills into the best growth in a company history that dates back to 1933. Watch and learn, and remember: implementation puts knobs on the doors so they open.

You can watch the clip on any of our social media sites or on YouTube.

Background: The Centennial Behind the Tour

For readers who want more context, here is some general background on the milestone the tour celebrated. The 19th Amendment cleared its final hurdle on August 18, 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it, giving the amendment the three-fourths of states it needed. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920, and that date is now observed each year as Women's Equality Day. The 2020 tour and the magazine edition tied to it were part of a nationwide wave of centennial events marking 100 years since women won the constitutional right to vote.

Women in Construction: The Bigger Picture

The construction industry has historically had one of the lowest shares of women of any major sector. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women made up about 10.9 percent of the construction industry's workforce in 2020, the year this post was published. Organizations such as the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) exist to support and grow that number through networking, education, and mentorship. Conversations like the one on this tour are one small part of that larger effort.

Turning Advice into Action

Bridget's point about implementation applies to any business, and it is worth spelling out why. Advice is cheap and plentiful; the hard part is choosing which piece to act on and building the habit of following through. A few practical ways to do that:

• Write the advice down in your own words and decide what "done" looks like.
• Pick one change at a time and give it a fixed trial period before judging the results.
• Assign an owner and a date, even if the owner is you.
• Review what happened, keep what worked, and drop what did not.

The same discipline goes into a well-run door and hardware project. A specification is only useful once it becomes a schedule, a submittal, and an installed opening that swings the way it should.

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