by Simplar | Nov 24, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
The Bottom Line is The Bottom Line This past year and a half we have all been subjected to a stress test. We have been trying to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from one of the deadliest viral pandemics in human history. We are struggling to understand the...
by Simplar | Feb 20, 2025 | Business Failure, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Risk Management, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
Continuing last week’s risk discussion: Recognizing, identifying, and measuring risk is a critical pre-bid task. A Las Vegas sports book doesn’t wait to set the line until after the game. A handicapper who failed to take a key player’s injured wrist into account or...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Capital Reserves Contractor’s Last Line of Defense For the past three weeks we have been discussing the nature of capital reserves and their importance to contractors trying to manage through the depth and breadth of the current COVIDeconomic downturn. Construction...
by Simplar | Feb 5, 2026 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Organization Transformation, Project Delivery, Weekly Construction Message
This year, it is my mission to discuss the science of business. When financial transactions are small and simple the commonsense entrepreneur can make artful choices that propel the firm forward. But when construction companies achieve scale, they become the most...
by Simplar | Jan 15, 2026 | Business of Construction, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
“Two roads converged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost Every mature industrial company is nothing more than the net result of the management choices made from the beginning. Put yourself...
