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Navigating To Leadership Success

By: Reed Schade

Reed Schade

Josh Lee

Ortonville

Brian Pies

Summit

Before the internet, GPS, and smartphones, a road trip to unfamiliar territories required a road atlas. If you remember they were typically big bulky books with maps broken down by state or specific areas. My dad’s atlas was well used with rolled edges and ketchup stains on Nebraska and Minnesota pages. During our summer family trips, my brother and I would page through the atlas and try taking the role of head navigator away from Dad, which while entertaining, never happened.

There have been countless books written on leadership. Heck, there is an entire industry built around it. As new leaders start down the path it can be a big transition from asking to answering the questions at hand. Sometimes as leaders we don’t have all the information to make the decision easy, nor do we have the luxury of time to let the solution uncover itself. But we always have our “atlas” of core values to guide us in the right direction. It’s inevitable we will make some wrong decisions at times, but if those decisions came from our “atlas of values”, with a small detour we will always find our destination.

Josh Lee, Brian Pies, Bryce Brenden, Adriaan Van Der Berg, and Troy Reasoner are 5 employees that share LGE Core Values and have taken the steering wheel as crew leaders at their locations.

Bryce Brenden

Brookings

Adriaan Van Der Berg

Sioux Falls Portable

Troy Reasoner

Sioux Falls Portable

7 Questions with Reed

What might someone be surprised to learn about you? A couple years ago my brother and some friends completed the Dakal Adventure Loop which is a 900-mile motorcycle trail covering SD, ND, MT, WY, and NE. The majority of it was on offroad trails and gravel roads.
What is your favorite thing about LGE? Every day presents new challenges.
What is the best piece of advice you have received? Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be and why? I would like to spend a day in the future year of 2222. Technology has advanced exponentially over the last 200 years and I can’t fathom what our world will look like in another 200 years.
What makes a great leader? Humility, Vision, and Communication
If you could have dinner with any person from the past, present or future, who would it be and why? I had a grandfather and grandmother pass away when I was very young. I would like to hear the stories of raising 7 daughters.
What would be your perfect meal? Baby back ribs, corn on the cob, and a chocolate malt.

The Fineness Modulus (FM) of aggregates can be an intimidating term, but it’s just an empirical value that describes the average size of particles in a sample of aggregate. It is not a precise value, as it provides a way to estimate the amount of aggregate needed to proportion mix designs.

The origins of the Fineness Modulus Concept were developed in 1918 by an American materials researcher named Duff Abrams.

It is a way of characterizing concrete aggregates, simplifying the gradation curve, and estimating the correct proportions to use in mix designs.

This term is a key component used in the concrete mix design to describe the gradation curve as well as the texture and uniformity of the material. The FM of fine aggregate (Sand) fraction is also an important indicator of other characteristics of both plastic and hardened concrete such as workability, finish ability, shrinkage, porosity, permeability, and strength.

ASTM C-33 requires the FM of fine aggregate to be between 2.3 and 3.1 with a variance of 0.2.

A typical mix design, fine aggregate may have a target FM of 2.7, the variance is then 2.5 to 2.9.

As a sand producer, this becomes a key production target.

If you are interested, you can choose this link to the article written by Ben Backus.

www.globalgilson.com/blog/fineness-modulus-of-concrete-aggregates

SDSU Students Visit Brookings QC Lab

Brookings QC lab received a visit from SDSU Sophomores. Great work by Gage Anderson, Bryce Brenden, and Cody Currier on teaching the students how to complete a gradation!