by Simplar | Oct 29, 2026 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Project Teams, Weekly Construction Message
In past messages I have compared building a winning football team to building a winning construction company team. Although one competes under stadium lights, while the other delivers work on job sites, both depend on the same essential truth: Sustained success comes...
by Simplar | Oct 22, 2026 | Business Development, Growth, Leadership, Managing Subcontractors, Weekly Construction Message
Decades of research have documented that integrity and reputation are the foundations of a construction enterprise’s prosperity. Long-term success is built over years through a reputation for excellence. Reputation is not just a marketing asset, it is the operating...
by Simplar | Oct 15, 2026 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Growth, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
The post-WWII economic boom saw giant corporations dominating the economic landscape. By the late 60’s this corporate expansion was being accomplished by a wave of mergers and acquisitions that resulted in new corp. entities known as “holding...
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...
