Business View Magazine - Sept 2023

52 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 9 By this, he refers to the needs related to staffing up for bigger projects. Yet CW & Sons can stay ahead of the game, as Robertson points out, by keeping its collective eye on the ball and remaining in a mode of constant vigilance and excellence. Sheer perseverance is another secret weapon in CW & Sons’ handy toolbox. As Robertson notes, once his people are on the job, they stick with it until that job is done right: completed to perfection. What’s a typical day like—on the job and out in the field? For Robertson, it means a day of rising to challenges and meeting goals, and he loves a good challenge. What’s the key? Teamwork. Put good people on the job, and then stand back and watch them go. “Growing up in sports and having played football and baseball my entire life, you hear a lot of sports-related analogies, such as, ‘You’re only as good as your weakest link,’” says Robertson. “Taking that into play today in the business world, it’s very much the same thing. You have to make sure you surround yourself with good people—good team members, and a lot of our success here is driven by them and putting those good people in the places they need to be. “My role is just trying to foster that motivation,” he adds, “and maintain a level of satisfaction here, wherein everybody on our project team wants to come to work every day.” A great leadership team Harbaugh says CW & Sons’ leadership team has been in place since 2018. For all their hard work and recognized efforts, he praises chief executive officer Chris Welch, controller Nancy Hall, and chief