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Detail Work
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Leadership
Even-Flow A Big Idea for Smaller Builders
Even-flow is a hot management concept among production builders. Big, publicly-held Giant builders are even embracing the idea, despite those behemoths' well-earned notoriety for forcing large numbers of houses into production all at once — to boost closings at the end of each quarter, in desperate efforts to impress Wall Street.
Design
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