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 | Sep 11, 2023 | Built Environment, Change Management, Change Management, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
From Builder to Manager Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. With the possible exception of prostitution, construction is the world’s oldest industry. It is, however, a business unlike any other. All modern industrial companies introduce a product or service to the marketplace...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Change Management, Change Management, Change Management
All Management Is Change Management Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results simply does not and will not work. Manager’s Reality Check: Is this my management style? Do I keep steering my company down the same path because I’m familiar with...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Change Management, Change Management, Change Management
Where-How-Why ” If You Don’t Know Where Your Going, You’re Probably Not Going to Get There.” (An Ancient Chinese Proverb) As we have discussed over the past two weeks, the reason most construction company CEOs resist engaging in formal strategic planning is that...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Change Management, Change Management, Change Management
2020 The Year of Solutions This blog spent the entire year of 2019 identifying the business risks hidden in the complex opaque nature of the construction industry. 2020 will be the year of solutions. Every week we will select a risk identified in 2019 and explain...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Change Management, Change Management, Change Management, Change Management
Pivot to Planning The focus of the country’s pandemic response has shifted from managing a public health crisis to reopening the economy. Construction concerns will be pivoting from immediate survival measures to planning for an uncertain future. Exactly what the rest...
