Press Release
Craig Plescia Debunks Five Myths Holding Back Construction Leaders
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Craig Plescia, Founder and CEO of Plescia Construction & Development in Morristown, New Jersey, challenges common misconceptions that prevent professionals from reaching their full potential in the construction industry.
The Problem with Industry Myths
New Jersey, USA, Jun 12, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Construction professionals face pressure from every direction: tight margins, demanding clients, unpredictable schedules, and a workforce stretched thin. In this environment, myths take root quickly. They sound reasonable. They feel safe. But they quietly undermine performance.
Craig Plescia has seen these misconceptions derail projects, drain profitability, and burn out talented people. After more than two decades leading commercial construction projects across multiple sectors, he has identified five myths that consistently mislead individuals in the industry.
“Consistency, credibility, and execution. If you can reliably generate opportunities, build trust, and deliver results at a high level, you’ll outperform most people in this industry,” Plescia says.
Myth One: More Hours Equals Better Results
Many construction professionals believe that working longer hours is the only path to success. The logic seems sound: more time on the job means more gets done. The culture reinforces it. People wear exhaustion as a badge of honor.
This belief persists because the industry rewards visible effort and punishes downtime. When a project falls behind, the instinct is to throw more hours at the problem. But hours without structure lead to mistakes, rework, and burnout.
The reality is different. Execution creates momentum, not endless hours. “I focus on what I can control, break challenges into smaller actions, and rely on routine instead of motivation. Execution creates momentum, and momentum overrides doubt,” Plescia explains.
Practical tip: Block three hours tomorrow morning for high-priority work only. Turn off notifications. Focus on one deliverable. Measure the quality of output, not the quantity of hours.
Myth Two: Success Means Sacrificing Personal Life
The belief that professional achievement requires personal sacrifice runs deep. People assume that building a successful business means missing family events, neglecting health, and putting relationships on hold. The narrative is everywhere: if you want to win, something has to give.
This myth survives because early-stage businesses often demand intense focus. The lines blur. The hours pile up. But making it a permanent strategy leads to breakdown, not breakthrough.
The fact is that professional success and personal stability are not opposites. They support each other. “Professional success builds the foundation, but personal stability makes it sustainable. When they’re aligned, performance and overall satisfaction are significantly higher,” Plescia notes.
Practical tip: Set one non-negotiable personal commitment this week and protect it the same way you protect a client meeting. Health, family, or rest. No exceptions.
Myth Three: Taking On Every Project Builds the Business
Many contractors believe that saying yes to every opportunity is the fastest way to grow. More projects mean more revenue, more visibility, and more relationships. Turning down work feels risky, especially early on.
This belief takes hold because deal flow is unpredictable. When opportunities arrive, the instinct is to grab them. But taking on poorly scoped or underpriced work erodes margins and stretches resources thin.
The lesson is clear: not all projects are good projects. “We took on a project early that wasn’t properly scoped or priced, which hurt margins. I used that as a lesson to implement stricter qualification, clearer scopes, and disciplined pricing,” Plescia says.
Practical tip: Before accepting the next project, ask three questions. Does it fit your strengths? Is it priced correctly? Will it strengthen your reputation? If the answer to any is no, walk away.
Myth Four: Results Are the Only Thing That Matter
The construction industry is results-driven. Projects are either on time and on budget or they are not. This clarity is valuable. But it also creates a myth: that outcomes are the only measure of success.
People believe this because clients care about results. Contracts are built around them. Performance is judged by them. But results without quality execution, client satisfaction, or team morale are hollow victories.
The truth is that how you deliver matters as much as what you deliver. “Outcomes come first, but they have to align with my standards and client feedback. Real success is hitting the target, executing at a high level, and leaving the right impression,” Plescia explains.
Practical tip: After your next project milestone, ask your client one question: What could we have done better? Use the feedback to improve the next phase.
Myth Five: Success Happens Once You Arrive
Many professionals believe that success is a destination. Hit a revenue target, win a major project, or land a key client, and the hard work is over. The struggle ends. The pressure lifts.
This myth persists because milestones feel like finish lines. Celebrating them is important. But treating them as endpoints leads to complacency. Growth stops when the drive to improve stops.
The reality is that success is a process, not a prize. “I continuously raise the bar, seek out bigger challenges, and stay around people who push my standards higher. Growth comes from staying uncomfortable and intentional, not from success itself,” Plescia says.
Practical tip: Set a new standard this month that makes you slightly uncomfortable. Raise your pricing. Pursue a bigger client. Tighten your project timeline. Stay intentional.
If You Only Remember One Thing
Execution beats effort. Discipline beats hours. Clarity beats hustle. The construction professionals who succeed long-term are not the ones who work the most. They are the ones who work with intention, protect their standards, and build systems that create repeatable results.
Take Action Today
These myths are not harmless. They cost money, time, and opportunity. Share this list with someone in your network who needs to hear it. Pick one tip from the list and apply it today. Small changes in approach create outsized results over time.
About Craig Plescia
Craig Plescia is the Founder and CEO of Plescia Construction & Development, a commercial general contracting and construction management company based in Morristown, New Jersey. With over 20 years of experience in the construction industry, Plescia has led complex projects across commercial interiors, hospitality, retail, life sciences, industrial, educational, multifamily, mixed-use, and data center sectors. He is a member of YPO, where he serves as Chapter Chair for Garden State Integrated, and is actively involved with ULI, NAIOP, CoreNet, and BOMA.
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Press Release
Scandic Coin Issues Statement About BitMart Withdrawal Freeze and Lack of Funds
London, United Kingdom, July 27th, 2026, Chainwire
SCANDIC COIN (SNC) demands an immediate explanation from BitMart. According to SNC, a withdrawal request submitted on 26 July 2026 at 09:10:03 German time remained marked as “Processing” for more than 35 hours. At publication, 22,000 USDT and nearly 930,000 SNC had still not reached the designated wallets.
SCANDIC COIN states that timestamped screenshots document the balances, withdrawal request, amounts, date, time and continuing status. The assets are not BitMart’s property. According to SNC, they belong exclusively to its operating company, are not BitMart funds and are not locked in active trading positions.
BitMart has announced the wind-down of its trading-platform operations. In that context, a prolonged failure to release substantial company-owned assets — without a case-specific reason or reliable deadline — is unacceptable. An exchange instructing users to withdraw must demonstrate that withdrawals can actually be honoured.
The unavoidable question is: Is this a technical or compliance-related delay, or does BitMart lack sufficient liquidity, financial resources or operational capacity to honour withdrawals promptly and in full?
SCANDIC COIN is not asserting insolvency as a proven fact. But after more than 35 hours without payment or a satisfactory explanation, BitMart must dispel that concern immediately with verifiable facts.
BitMart Must Answer Immediately:
- Why is the withdrawal still marked “Processing”?
- Is a compliance, security or risk review pending, and are further documents required?
- When exactly will the 22,000 USDT and nearly 930,000 SNC be released?
- Does BitMart have sufficient liquid assets to honour all legitimate withdrawals in full?
Immediate Release or Escalation
SCANDIC COIN demands immediate release of the assets or a detailed written explanation identifying the precise legal, compliance, technical or security reason and a binding completion time. If BitMart fails to act, SNC will preserve the screenshots and account records and pursue all available legal and regulatory remedies.
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SIM IP Is Building a China Trade Out of Patents, Not Products
Miami, United States, July 27th, 2026, FinanceWire
Is there another China trade coming? One contrarian answer in finance says yes, and it has nothing to do with stocks, supply chains, or tariffs. It is patents.
SIM IP, the Miami-based intellectual property investment firm led by Erich Spangenberg, has spent the past fifteen months buying patent portfolios at a pace its industry rarely sees. People close to the firm describe a deliberate focus on patents sourced from Chinese technology companies, in the areas where European patent enforcement now bites hardest. The firm operates as a principal, buying with its own capital rather than earning fees on other people’s money. Together, the purchases look less like a licensing business and more like a directional trade.
The Asset Class Institutional Money Found Late
For most of its existence, IP monetization was a specialist’s corner of finance, thinly capitalized. That has changed. By estimates one firm cites, dedicated institutional capital in the space has grown from roughly $5 billion in 2010 to more than $50 billion today. Fortress Investment Group manages approximately $5 billion in its intellectual property strategy. InterDigital, a publicly traded licensing business, and its peer public licensing companies, like Rambus, today have a combined market cap of over $28 billioni.
Only a handful of these players operate as principals at scale, and SIM IP has built its position under one of the field’s most recognized names. Spangenberg, a former Jones Day lawyer and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette banker, has acted as a principal in more than $1 billion of IP licensing transactions and over $1.5 billion of IP financing deals, plus an advisory record above $2 billion. He is sought out by patent owners who share returns with him and, by the firm’s own telling, quietly feared by the technology companies that end up across the table.
Eleven Deals in Fifteen Months
The cadence is the tell. SIM IP has closed 11 patent transactions over the 15 months to May 2026, by its own count. The firm reckons a significant patent acquisition typically takes 6 months or more to close; its dated announcements show deals landing roughly every 45 days. The most recent, announced on May 19, 2026, took 126 curated video coding patents off Alibaba’s hands, covering the AV1 and AV2 standards that sit underneath streaming platforms and AI data center workloads.
China sourcing is not opportunistic. Government records show Spangenberg kept an office in Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower as early as 2004, years before most Western IP investors treated China as a source of world-class portfolios. Those relationships, with IP executives, researchers, and officials, are, by the company’s account, its supply line today. Sources familiar with the firm’s strategy say the buying is concentrated in data center infrastructure, foldable display technology, and next-generation communications.
A Digital Twin and a European Lever
Two pieces turn a stack of portfolios into a position. The first is Garden Intel, the applied AI company SIM IP acquired for $150 million in February 2026. The reaction the firm says it heard at the time was that the price was too high, and that general-purpose models would soon replicate Garden’s analytics for free. Spangenberg’s answer was blunt: “Not without 20+ years of proprietary transaction data generated personally across 1,600+ deals done privately, data that no foundation model has ever seen and no competitor can replicate,” said Spangenberg, co-founder and chief executive officer of SIM IP. The firm says it is now running Garden’s engine across that private deal history to build what it calls a digital twin of Spangenberg’s judgment, so his pattern recognition operates across the firm rather than in one man.
The second piece is Europe. The Unified Patent Court, now operational across 18 EU member states, allows a patent holder to win a single injunction blocking sales in all of them simultaneously, from Germany and France to the Netherlands and Italy. Under the old country-by-country system, a manufacturer could fight and lose piecemeal. Under the UPC, one loss can shut off most of the European market at once. The technology areas where sources say SIM IP is buying are the same areas where hyperscalers, cloud companies and consumer electronics manufacturers carry their heaviest European exposure.
Contrarian trades are judged in hindsight, and this one has plenty to prove. The structure, though, is already visible: an asset class filling with institutional money, a principal deploying his own capital with a two-decade head start in the market supplying the assets, an AI system trained on data nobody else holds, and a European court that has turned patents into market access. Whether or not the China IP Trade ends up beside the famous macro bets, SIM IP has already made it a position rather than a thesis.
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Eva Soldati-Schnyder Honored as “Law Firm of the Year” in Central Switzerland (2026)
Recognition highlights two decades of excellence in international inheritance, arbitration, and commercial law.
Switzerland, 27th Jul 2026 – In today’s complex legal and financial landscape, where international borders blur and regulations grow increasingly intricate, certainty is the most valuable asset. At the critical crossroads of life and business, whether navigating high-stakes commercial disputes or securing the generational transfer of family wealth conventional legal advice is simply not enough. Clients require a clear compass, unquestionable authority, and profound human understanding. They need a sanctuary of stability.
The recent institutional recognition awarded to Evalaw exemplifies these exact qualities. In an official and prestigious announcement, the legal community of the Canton of Lucerne has awarded Rechtsanwältin Eva Soldati-Schnyder and her team the esteemed title of “Law Firm of the Year 2026.”
This accolade is more than a professional commendation; it is a definitive seal of quality, representing two decades of meticulous Swiss practice, uncompromising strategy, and outstanding achievements in managing high-risk arbitration and some of the most complex cross-border succession cases in Central Switzerland.
Two Decades of Precision: Where Technical Mastery Meets Strategic Vision
Since her admission to the Bar in 2006 (Anwaltskammer Luzern), Eva Soldati-Schnyder has relentlessly built Evalaw into more than just a law practice, it has become an institution synonymous with Swiss prestige, absolute discretion, and unwavering reliability.
Today, the firm is the destination of choice for international clients seeking to bridge the gap between traditional Swiss legal rigor and modern, agile, client-centric solutions. Evalaw’s success lies in its unique ability to deconstruct highly complex, emotionally or commercially charged situations into rational components. We build a clear, step-by-step strategy that neutralizes uncertainty and restores absolute control to our clients’ hands.
The Pillars of the Firm: Leadership in a World of Uncertainty
The “Law Firm of the Year” award specifically highlights Evalaw’s exceptional command over three core legal domains, where the firm is recognized as a supreme professional authority:
1. International Inheritance & Estate Planning (Protecting Your Legacy)
The transfer of wealth, assets, and a life’s work across generations requires far more than technical proficiency in tax or contract law; it demands vision, sensitivity, and foresight. In a globalized world where family assets often span multiple continents and conflicting legal jurisdictions, Evalaw provides an airtight legal architecture.
Our team skillfully navigates Swiss and international private law to preserve the client’s legacy, prevent future disputes, and protect the family from unforeseen exposure. Every trust, will, and estate plan is crafted with surgical precision, honoring the client’s vision with absolute fidelity.
2. High-Stakes Arbitration & Corporate Law (Strategic Dispute Resolution)
In the modern corporate arena, disputes threaten not only the bottom line but the very existence and reputation of an enterprise. For our corporate clients, entering arbitration requires uncompromising, fierce representation.
Evalaw provides a powerful shield during commercial crises. We represent leading corporations and entities in complex arbitration, cross-border transactions, and struggles for corporate control. Our approach is aggressively protective of our clients’ rights, yet remarkably clear and analytical in the tribunal. We are guided by one singular objective: to swiftly restore business stability and successfully resolve the crisis while maintaining total corporate confidentiality.
3. Matrimonial Law & Wealth Crises (Navigating the Personal with Strength)
The dissolution of a family unit or personal disputes involving significant wealth and public standing are deeply fragile events, carrying both heavy emotional burdens and severe financial risks. In these vulnerable moments, clients often find themselves at a disadvantage.
Our firm offers a discreet, strong, and highly supportive safety net. We utilize deep psychological insight to filter out emotional noise, presenting the client with the full picture free of judgment. We neutralize emotional paralysis, empowering our clients to act from a position of strength, make highly rational decisions, and navigate safely out of the storm toward a secure, protected future.
A Vision of Perfection: Excellence as the Only Standard
“This title is a profound honor, but for us at Evalaw, it serves primarily as a living reminder of the immense responsibility we carry every single day,” stated Eva Soldati-Schnyder following the announcement. “When a client walks through our doors, they are entrusting us with more than legal paperwork; they are handing us their future, their financial security, and often, the peace of mind of their family for generations to come.To represent individuals and corporations with the absolute precision required to meet the strict standards of the Canton of Lucerne and Switzerland is a calling that allows for zero compromises. Excellence, for us, is not a future aspiration; it is the only standard we accept in the present. This award is dedicated to our clients, the families and corporations who chose us as their legal shield, trusting that we will never settle for anything less than perfection on their behalf.”
The Next Step: Secure and Discreet Legal Counsel
Headquartered in the heart of the Canton of Lucerne, Evalaw offers a comprehensive infrastructure designed to provide quiet, highly efficient, and entirely discreet service to our VIP clientele. We invite you to take the most important step toward peace of mind and legal security by scheduling a strategic consultation with our expert team.
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