by Simplar | Apr 25, 2025 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
The most important function of construction “bosses” after they promote themselves to “leader” is to build a professional organization that can provide their clients with expert services. After all, their team is their product. We are not...
by Simplar | Feb 13, 2025 | Built Environment, Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Change Management, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Growth, Growth, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Managing Subcontractors, Project Selection, Project Teams, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
Designers avoid risk, owners prefer to pass it along, and contractors absorb it. Today’s construction risk environment is dramatically different than it was in the last several decades, and risk factors are mutating just enough to be almost unrecognizable. It is...
by Simplar | Dec 12, 2024 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
A leader, as opposed to a manager or “boss”, has a formidable responsibility to not only manage the current business, which generates significant revenue and needs continual incremental innovation to hit short-term success targets, but also to champion...
by Simplar | Dec 5, 2024 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Unique Construction Business In many aspects the construction industry is unique in all American business: It sells a service but produces a product. There is no ongoing transaction. Construction companies migrate from one project to the next. It’s like starting a new...
by Simplar | Dec 5, 2024 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
When must a contractor grow beyond being an entrepreneur and become a leader? What is the difference? What are the circumstances that require this evolution? Why does this need to happen? What are the consequences if this transformation does not take place? The...
by Simplar | Dec 5, 2024 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Entrepreneurs all have a goal in mind, but in the frantic world of the construction business founders often forget where they’re headed. For construction professionals the goal is usually in the form of developing their company in the image of a contractor they are...
