In this article, I switch from technical issues to management. Most water well contractors are drillers who find themselves being business people. But business savvy is not something everyone is born with.
Hiring people means managing people. As I was working on some finishing touches on this, I got my May issue of National Driller and read Jessica Alexander’s excellent piece on managing your managers (“Retain Drilling Crews with Well-Equipped Managers,” May 2020). Managing our people might just be our most important function.