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
Where-How-Why  â If You Donât Know Where Your Going, Youâre Probably Not Going to Get There.â (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 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Strategic Planning #2 Trends  The last three blogs of 2019 are concerned with planning for 2020 and beyond. Last week we discussed the unexamined beliefs held by most construction CEOs that prevent them from adopting vigorous formal strategic planning procedures....
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Planning for 2020 (Beliefs) Â Formal strategic planning is not popular with construction company CEOs. Ironically, engineers, designers, project managers, and supervisors are some of the most sophisticated and effective planners in all of American industry....
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Growth, Growth
Dangerous DNA Â Americans are competitive. We were raised in the worldâs âland of opportunityâ where doing better than our forebears was not only encouraged but expected. This ingrained expectation to âdo betterâ drives the second and third generation of construction...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
4th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Time is Not on Our Side Last week in this crisis message series I said time is not on our side. Three weeks back I said that prudence suggests a reduction in overhead sooner rather than later. Unfortunately,...
