by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development
Flexibility = Profitability I have been talking for years about âFlexible Overheadâ 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 | Business Development, Business Development
Stop the Madness A subcontractorâs Perspective  Construction projects are highly complex, collaborative, interdependent, long-lasting, team efforts whose exact final cost is, in point of fact, impossible to estimate. It has never been a matter of skullduggery or...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development
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...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development
If You Take Your Eye Off the Ball Youâll 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,...