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If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball You’ll Strike Out
If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball
You’ll Strike Out
The Last Downturn
The 2008-2012 construction market downturn hit residential construction first. The burst of the $8 trillion housing bubble in 2007, and the subsequent collapse of the financial markets in 2008, created massive disarray in homebuilding. As many … Read the rest “If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball You’ll Strike Out”
10th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit
10th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer
The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit
If you did the exercise recommended last week in the ninth Crisis-era Message and determined to your own satisfaction that the US economy and the construction market will rebound in six months or less … Read the rest “10th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit”
Cut the Payroll Not the Culture
Cut the Payroll
Not the Culture
Even though we have never experienced a viral contagion on the scale of this pandemic before, we have, in fact, recently experienced a similar business interruption called the Great Recession of 2008. We know about suddenly shrinking construction markets and have research data concerning … Read the rest “Cut the Payroll Not the Culture”
9th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market Bracing for Long-Term Disruption
9th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer
The Construction Market
Bracing for Long-Term Disruption
Two things are required to support the construction market: The need for something to be built and the ability and willingness to pay for it. A decline in the US economy slows expansion … Read the rest “9th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: The Construction Market Bracing for Long-Term Disruption”
Pivot to Planning
Pivot to Planning
The focus of the country’s pandemic response has shifted from managing a public health crisis to reopening the economy.
Construction concerns will be pivoting from immediate survival measures to planning for an uncertain future. Exactly what the rest of 2020 and beyond will look like for the … Read the rest “Pivot to Planning”
Reimagining Your Company
Reimagining Your Company
During the Pandemic Crisis
Getting upset, angry or fearful over the business interruption caused by the current public health crisis is a form of futile resistance. Resistance to an event that has already occurred is often referred to as insane. The pandemic is upon us. That is … Read the rest “Reimagining Your Company”
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