by Simplar | Sep 4, 2025 | Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
Top line growth represents survival to a lot of contractors. Without regularly signing new contracts most contractors would go out of business in short order. Growth isn’t just an important thing, to some contractors, growth is the only thing. Every existing...
by Simplar | Jan 9, 2025 | Built Environment, Business Development, Business of Construction, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Growth, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Profit is Our Theme for 2025 Construction industry profit margins are too low. The financial risk we take is too high. Too many competent contractors fail without warning. We need to improve our business management practices this year to improve margins and reduce...
by Simplar | Jan 9, 2025 | Built Environment, Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Looking Ahead to 2025 Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. These are the topics we will be discussing in 2025. We’ll be diving a little deeper and our treatment of each topic will be more granular. See you next year. Marketing Reputation Market segmentation Owner...
by Simplar | Jun 20, 2024 | Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “Training”
by Simplar | Jun 13, 2024 | Business Development, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “Recruiting”
by Simplar | Mar 7, 2024 | Business Development, Business Development, Business Development, Business Development, Growth, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
The simplest definition of conglomerate is – a number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities. What a perfect description of a construction company! As I have said so often in the past, each...
