by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
How to Use Let’s Talk Business In a recent blog entitled, “What We Don’t Do…” I highlighted the construction industry’s propensity for secrecy; keeping hard-earned lessons “close to the vest” rather than sharing what we have learned with one another. With Let’s Talk...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Overhead
Overhead The Silent Killer I have rarely had much success talking to construction company management about overhead. Whenever I broach the subject of controlling overhead at one of my seminars, I can see eyes gradually glaze over and the assembled home office people...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Dispute Resolution, Dispute Resolution
Mitigate Don’t Litigate Since litigants brought their disputes before King Solomon, combatants have petitioned the wisdom of designated “authorities” to resolve their differences. No one, it seems, can settle matters without a designated judge “forcing” them to see...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Prospering Cyclical Market, Prospering Cyclical Market
Subject: Quality over quantity Never Ask a Texan… …the size of his spread. It’s not polite. I made that mistake while touring a Texas cattle ranch with the owner many years ago. The rest of the tour was spent in comparative silence. When we got back to the...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Planning for 2020 (Beliefs) 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 Americans are competitive. We were raised in the world’s “land of opportunity” where doing better than our forebears was not only encouraged but expected. This ingrained expectation to “do better” drives the second and third generation of construction...
