by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
Please circulate this widely. It will benefit your constituents. This research is continuous and includes new information weekly as it becomes available. Thank you, Tom 19th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Implementing “Flexible...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
18th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Embracing and Implementing “Flexible Overhead” The successful contractor of the future will modify their business model to manage overhead costs in order to profit during the inevitable market...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
17th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr. Tom Schleifer The Concept of “Flexible Overhead” The US economy has always been and continues to be cyclical, therefore the construction market as an integral part of the economy will continue to be cyclical....
by Simplar | Nov 24, 2022 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Can You Be Flexible? Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The construction industry is an outlier that evades classic management theory taught at all the nation’s prestigious business schools. The price of our construction services is set well in advance typically through...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Overhead
Overhead: A Silent Killer Originally Published in ENR September 16, 2015 See the original article here As part of our research into the recent downturn, my Arizona State University colleagues and I surveyed U.S. construction companies to discover what overhead they...