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Does Your Contracting Pipeline Live in the Owner’s Head?
Fri, Nov 6, 2026 | Posted by Per Ohstrom
Relationships matter in construction, and most subcontractors have good ones. The owner or president carries the key customer relationships, and the project managers carry everything else. That arrangement can work well. It is also fragile. In our last post, we asked whether you know by name who owns each strategic account. This one looks at what happens when the answer is the owner.
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