Dear Jayme, My paving business is doing okay. We’re growing at about 20 percent a year. But it seems like the bigger we get, the more problems show up and my profitability seems to drop. Can I just make this up with more revenue? Randy Dear Randy, Occasionally I’ll hear: “I may not be making any money now, but I’ll make it up in volume.” This is very dangerous thinking: Whatever problems exist in your construction business when it’s small will only be magnified when it grows, and its growth will be strangled as well. Another danger sign here is not knowing why your profitability stinks. Gross margin too low? Why? Overhead too high? How come? If you don’t have the data, systems or analytical...