by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
14th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer Construction Market Downturn’s Impact on Profitability Most industries prosper during growth and many also profit when sales decline. Logic would suggest that if a business makes $X profit while...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
Thirteenth Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Dynamics and Patterns of a Construction Market Downturn Finally: some light at the end of the tunnel. The US economy may have bottomed out and unemployment may have leveled, even improving some. I...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development
Compression Schleifer’s Dictionary of Business English Compression: the domino effect of the downward pressure applied to construction pricing by large contractors during market contractions. Compression occurs during construction market downturns when the larger...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
Please circulate this widely. It will benefit your constituents. This research is continuous and includes new information weekly as it becomes available. Thank you, Tom 12th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Potential and Timing of...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
11th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Ripple Effect of this Economic Disruption Sending employees home from work, limiting the size of business and social gatherings and wearing protective masks has a lot of people wondering about...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
10th Weekly Crisis-era Message to Contractors from: Dr Tom Schleifer The Construction Market: Recovery, Timing, Profit If you did the exercise recommended last week in the ninth Crisis-era Message and determined to your own satisfaction that the US economy and the...