by Simplar | Jan 10, 2026 | Built Environment, Business Development, Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Project Delivery, Weekly Construction Message
Even as the New Year has dawned, I offer these final thoughts on the year just passed. If I could sum up this past year’s dialogue into one overall theme I would say, “Managing a construction business is a completely different activity from managing a...
by Simplar | Feb 13, 2025 | Built Environment, Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Change Management, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Growth, Growth, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Managing Subcontractors, Project Selection, Project Teams, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
Designers avoid risk, owners prefer to pass it along, and contractors absorb it. Today’s construction risk environment is dramatically different than it was in the last several decades, and risk factors are mutating just enough to be almost unrecognizable. It is...
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 | Jun 7, 2024 | Built Environment, Labor & Labor Issues, Managing Subcontractors, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “Assembling Assets”
by Simplar | Apr 11, 2024 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “We Interrupt Our Regular Programming…”
