by Simplar | Sep 25, 2025 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Project Selection, Risk Management, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
Construction is a risky business. Diving from the springboard of project selection into the deep end of the risk pool immerses the contractor in a virtual ocean of risk factors. Like Football games, project financial risk can only be effectively managed before...
by Simplar | Oct 24, 2024 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Labor & Labor Issues, Organization Transformation, Project Delivery
The construction industry is perhaps the best example of an industry built on firmly held but largely unexamined beliefs. Most contractors I have worked with over the last 30 years believe that: top line growth in sales is always good; their company can build...
by Simplar | Jun 27, 2024 | Business of Construction, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “Keeping Your Team Intact”
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 | 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…”
by Simplar | Jun 22, 2023 | Business of Construction, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
Keeping the Team Together Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. “A closely held construction company can be defined at any given point in its life cycle as the sum and substance of its experience. Almost all of that sum and substance has been created by, and resides in, people,...
