by Simplar | Mar 24, 2021 | Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Weekly Construction Message
Employee Engagement and DevelopmentĀ Drucker Success Element #2 In our 2021 quest to define the success elements that mark a ābest-in-classā construction company, we began with the Drucker Instituteās five success elements: 1. Customer satisfaction 2. Employee...
by Simplar | Mar 17, 2021 | Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
āGetting The Workā Quality Based Pricing Best-in-Class Contractor Series March 17, 2021 In our 2021 Best-in-Class Contractor series we began at the beginning – signing and executing contracts. This is the stage in the construction process that most of the risk...
by Simplar | Mar 10, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership, Procurement, Procurement, Weekly Construction Message
ATTENTION OWNERS Look Beyond Low-Bid For the past two years, I have been preaching to contractors the wisdom of looking beyond low-bid. I have been frustrated to receive less than enthusiastic responses from a greater majority of contractors. Their reaction to my...
by Simplar | Mar 3, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
Beliefs And Harmful Bias Continuing our Best-in-Class series: Last year we discussed the concept of “unexamined beliefs” and the role they play in the management decision-making process. We talked about how these deeply held beliefs go largely unexamined....
by Simplar | Feb 24, 2021 | Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
The Contract: A Risk Management Tool Deviation from Plans or Specification Disputes Contracting is a risky business. Construction projects are high cost, complex team efforts that play out over an extended time period (often many years) with plenty of financial risk...
by Simplar | Feb 17, 2021 | Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Imagine As I said last week: The Drucker Institute’s 2020 list of the top 250 best-managed companies in America ranks companies based on their ability to integrate the five elements of success Peter Drucker identified in his research.Ā 1. Customer satisfactionĀ ...
