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| 5 Reasons Why Homebuilders Need Both Urgency And Foresight Now | The ground under U.S. homebuilding is shifting — unevenly, unpredictably, and without clear direction.
Single-family permits have slid for six months. Builder sentiment rattles in an echochamber of negative territory. Mortgage rates occasio... |
| Five Presidents, One Goal: Let’s Build The 2030 Homebuilder Now | [Pictured from top left: Alex Akel, President, Akel Homes, Audrey Lam, Chief Financial Officer, Oakwood Homes, David McDonald, President, Defy Investment/Davis Homes, Nikki Pechet, Co-Founder, CEO, Homebound, Wade Jurney, Co-Founder, Presid... |
| Why Hayden Homes’ Deb Flagan Is A Key To Focus On Excellence | Housing’s be-careful-what-you-wish-for moment is here and now.
Besieged by affordability and access challenge results of decades of under building, housing’s growing crisis is – as it has seldom been – a top campaign priority for two presid... |
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Deal Makers, Start Your Engines: A Fast, Furious M&A Pace Ahead | When things are going great, that’s the time to sell.”
Tony Avila, CEO of Builder Advisor Group, has been instrumental in shaping the M&A landscape for homebuilders across the United States. Avila’s insight underscores a critical truth ... |
| Where Homebuilding Wisdom And AI Talent Build What’s Next | Too many homebuilding leaders still cling to the belief that the future of homebuilding is somewhere out there, around the next corner or maybe the next. That it will arrive after one more cycle. That it’s something you can pilot next year ... |
| How Outlier Homebuilders Build An Edge, Even In a Slow Market | This isn’t just a slowdown.
It’s not just a soft spring. Or a sticky-mortgage-rate summer. Or a little breather before another market run.
For homebuilding leaders, our current situation is deeper, more consequential, and more dangerous to ... |
| Leadership Transformation, Not Just Another Industry Event | This week, as we announced that our Focus On Excellence registration site went live, we made a claim.
This is not just a conference.”
What makes Focus On Excellence different?
Our program “reveals” over the next couple of weeks will clarify... |
| HW Media acquires The Builder’s Daily, expanding into the homebuilding vertical | DALLAS, TX — July 16, 2025 — HW Media, the parent company of HousingWire, has acquired The Builder’s Daily (TBD), the trusted editorial voice for the homebuilding industry. The acquisition marks a significant step in HW Media’s strategy to ... |
| C-Suite Leaders Will Gather To Chart Homebuilding’s ’26 Reset | (Image from the left: Linda Mamet, Executive VP, Chief Marketing Officer, Tri Pointe Homes, Urmila Menon, CIO, Tri Pointe Homes, Brandon Sharp, CIO, Brookfield Residential, Stephanie McCarty, CMO, Taylor Morrison Homes … illustration Maggie... |
| A Pivot Point: Hear Why Leaders Plan To Focus On Excellence | At the heart of the fetchingly titled essay, “Fill The Bathtub,” CollabFund contributor Ted Lamade quotes the late Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger.
Warren and I have a system where we spend a lot of time identifying very trustworthy peo... |
| Homebuilders Unlock Resilient High-Performance Team-Building | Left to right: Higher Echelon’s Dr. Donnie Horner, VP Human Capital Solutions, Dr. Angie Winter, Director of Leadership Development, Dr. Eric Bean, Director of High Performance
America’s housing affordability crisis has been a generation in... |
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Homebuilding Strategists Talk Candidly About Getting To 2030 | [Image, clockwise from top: Alex Akel, President, Akel Homes, David McDonald, President, Defy Investments/Davis Homes, Wade Jurney, Co-Founder, CEO, National Home Corp., Nikki Pechet, Co-Founder, CEO, Homebound, Audrey Lam, Executive VP – F... |
| Why AMH Senior VP Robert Broad Is A Focus On Excellence Catalyst | Robert Broad came out of the University of Michigan exactly three decades ago with a B.S.-Architecture focus, and a plan to make an impact in homebuilding. Ten years later, I met Robert in early 2005, in his role as director of engineering ... |
| When Unknowns Define The Future of Homebuilding Strategy | Is “the bottom” in?
Will the next Fed funds rate cut release pent-up demand?
Will AI disrupt employment trends sooner? Or later?
What does ‘future-proof’ mean to private and public homebuilders today?
What we don’t know will shape everythin... |
| Clear Thinking, Hard Truths: Focus On Excellence Fireside Chat Revealed | The Focus On Excellence Leadership Summit and Workshop (Oct. 27–29, Four Seasons Denver) has built its reputation on one promise.
No fluff, no theory, no double-speak. Instead, real, rolled-up-sleaves leadership learning, scenario-planning,... |
| Homebuilding Leaders Embrace Focus On Excellence Lifelong Learning: A Reflection | [Left to right: Higher Echelon’s Dr. Donnie Horner, VP Human Capital Solutions, Dr. Angie Winter, Director of Leadership Development, Dr. Eric Bean, Director of High Performance]
Sixty-six strategic leaders – CEOs, presidents, principal own... |
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Capital, Land, and People Collide In Still Unsolved Hard Problems | About midway through Derek Thompson’s and Ezra Klein’s viral manifesto, Abundance, glares a line that calls back repeatedly, like a spell, through example after example of American business and innovation’s pent-up, trapped dynamism:
The un... |
| Capital Optionality Is 2026’s Winning Homebuilder Strategy | As 2025 draws to a close, a key theme has emerged among homebuilding strategists: advantage is concentrating at the top, and the rest of the field faces a pivotal – gut-wrenching – choice.
This defining, intensifying asymmetry weighs compet... |
| Century Communities’ Jim Francescon Bridges Legacy and Future | The hard part about leadership in 2025, 2026, and beyond isn’t just managing through the noise — it’s seeing and hearing beyond it.
Mortgage rates, land costs, material tariffs, capital constraints, climate risk — they’re all loud. What mat... |
| Four Futures of Homebuilding: Which One Are You Ready For? | At most industry conferences, the real conversations happen in the hallways. That’s where leaders compare notes, test instincts, and wrestle with the big questions no keynote can settle.
Bank financing is tighter.
Land costs are higher.
Ent... |
| When the Ground Shifts, Home Builders That Keep Moving Win | New home markets give and new home markets take away. This one – right now – is giving very few homebuilders a break.
A few consider that turbulence and drag one of this cycle’s biggest opportunities.
Single-family permits have been sliding... |
| How Division Leader Scott Davis Inspires CEOs to Lead with Excellence | In this business, you need a leader. Somebody has to take the leadership role with a bull’s-eye on their back that this may not work, but by God, we’re gonna kick ass, blow the bugle, and open our doors, and people are gonna love to come in... |
| The Digital Thread Is The Next Frontier For Homebuilders | What we don’t know may now matter more than what we do.
We don’t know whether mortgage rates – or homebuilders’ borrowing costs – will be a point lower or a point higher by next spring.
We don’t know whether home-insurance markets in Texas,... |
| Why We’re So Excited Cory Boydston Will Join Us In Austin In October | Act like a start-up.”
You may wonder if that means you. It does. A brief explanation follows.
When I first met Cory Boydston, she sat at a conference table in the modest Roswell, GA, corporate park offices of Ashton Woods Homes, next to 39-... |
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Moody’s Christian deRitis To Take The Stage At Focus On Excellence | There are a lot of housing events out there. Conferences with big speakers, slide decks, happy hours, and well-meaning panels.
Our first batch of homebuilding business leader attendees has registered for Focus On Excellence because they exp... |