by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Mother Nature Is Taking Us to School Let’s face it – everything has suddenly changed. Everything. We didn’t think that Mother Nature had this much power over the clever, inventive, and industrious human race. After all, we cure disease, create artificial intelligence,...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Leadership
Beyond COVID Part 2 Your Company Renewed Last week we began a series of blogs on looking beyond this sudden COVID pandemic market contraction to reimagine your company “Post-COVID”. Major events like this present an opportunity to improve any company’s...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
EMBRACE CHANGE Because the only thing permanent in life is change “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Winston Churchill “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” Lao Tzu “When we are no longer able to change a...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Leadership
Beyond COVID-19 I’ve been ringing the “fire bell” constantly since this COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March, and I’m getting tired of hearing my own cautionary tale. This week, I’m making the assumption that construction professionals, now alerted, have taken...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Failure, Managing Subcontractors
A Negative Bias We called this blog “Let’s Talk Business” (letstalkbusiness.net) because we wanted to emphasize business management issues in construction as opposed to operations, engineering, or design. Many senior managers in the construction industry started as...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Financial Management and Risk
Profitability Equals Viability Dateline: Engineering News Record, August 26, 2020, Debra K. Rubin and Peter Reina “…As it moves away from lump-sum contracting, in the wake of project charges and recent quarter losses to focus on higher-margin...
