by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Strategy Defined What’s all this about strategic planning? Many contractors still consider strategic thinking an academic exercise not worth taking into the real world of nuts and bolts construction. Ask a contractor if he considers himself a “doer” or a “thinker”,...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development
The Yin & Yang of Construction If blue was the only color, there would be no blue. Without sound there is no silence. “In ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
1st Crisis-era message to Contractors From: Dr Tom Schleifer We’ve never been here before, the new normal, so we need to take a unique and longer-term view about how to react. A health crisis turned immediately into an economic crisis and we can’t know how long it...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development
Flexibility = Profitability I have been talking for years about “Flexible Overhead” as a fundamental management tool in the construction industry. By Flexible OverheadI mean the ability to expand or contract overhead with the same speed as the construction market...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
Third Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Why a Measured Response and When? We are all in this together and doing our part to stem the spread of the virus. Most fear that this is not a pause but a tsunami. Which it is, in that the effects …...
