by Simplar | Aug 27, 2026 | Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
A strategic plan establishes ambitions such as profitable growth, stronger safety performance, improved schedule reliability, or expansion into new markets. However, those ambitions will remain broad statements unless managers and employees understand how their daily...
by Simplar | Aug 20, 2026 | Business Development, Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Leadership, Risk Management, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
If you have not read last week’s message you should go back and read it at least twice, take notes, think about it and talk to other employees about it. Internalize as much of the content as you can and then read today’s blog. Wandering Effective business...
by Simplar | Aug 7, 2026 | Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Growth, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
I often define strategic planning as an ongoing mental organizational process used to point your company in a direction and help leaders and employees share goals, establish priorities, and allocate resources so that everyone’s daily actions support the...
by Simplar | Jul 16, 2026 | Business of Construction, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Succession Planning, Succession Planning, Weekly Construction Message
In my long career as a contractor to a consultant, I have had the good fortune to work with young people who had recently inherited a construction business. Most of these young men and women were already working in the family firm in a middle management or executive...
by Simplar | Jul 10, 2026 | Business Development, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Leadership, Leadership, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
Warren Buffet was a businessman. He never drove a train, wrote an insurance policy, built an office tower, or miniaturized a computer. He strictly analyzed an existing business’s ability to make a profit over an extended period and invested an appropriate...
by Simplar | Apr 9, 2026 | Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Organization Transformation
We are discussing how unexamined beliefs about the nature and structure of the construction business transaction have had a corrosive effect on contractor profit margins for the past 50 years. The resulting standard business practices followed by all construction...
