by Simplar | Sep 15, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Facility Management, Growth, Growth, Organization Transformation, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Partnering, Planning, PM, Procurement, Project Delivery, Weekly Construction Message
In The Eye of the Beholder Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Wall Street investment advisors are beginning to act like contractors. Hedge fund managers now value tech companies based on a multiple of future revenues rather than a multiple of past earnings. Revenues trump...
by Simplar | Mar 3, 2022 | Growth, Growth, Project Selection, Project Selection, Project Selection, Project Selection, Weekly Construction Message
SIZE MATTERS Warren Buffet once famously said: “I buy expensive suits… They just look cheap on me.” In this disrupted, unpredictable market of 2022, project selection may be the most important decision construction senior management will make. Last...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Growth, Growth
To See Ourselves As We Really Are Subject: The 5 Stages of Growth The company I founded worked for sureties across the country completing failed construction projects the sureties had bonded. During this period, I assisted in the resolution or salvage of hundreds of...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Growth, Growth
Dangerous DNA Americans are competitive. We were raised in the world’s “land of opportunity” where doing better than our forebears was not only encouraged but expected. This ingrained expectation to “do better” drives the second and third generation of construction...
