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) 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...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Overhead
Overhead This economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic presents an opportunity for senior construction management to reevaluate and renew their companies, preparing to participate fully in the growth market cycle that will surely follow the downturn. As I...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
The New Normal We are entering the fourth week of this startling, confusing, confounding economic pause. It seems like a lifetime. Government-mandated cessation of economic activity in the face of a worldwide viral pandemic is a first in human history. The economy...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Leadership
Beware the Pitfalls Of Your Beliefs Over these past six weeks, we have taken the opportunity during the COVID pandemic discussions to evaluate construction organization performance against the performance of “best in class” construction firms. The Construction...