by Simplar | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
The Construction Customer Our research indicates that the majority of owners and designers engaged in construction projects come at the experience with a “commodity mind-set”. To them, the contractor merely performs a function that any contractor could perform so the...
by Simplar | Jul 7, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Current Events/Interests, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
How is it possible that construction concerns being run by professional managers in the 21st century often run out of cash and suddenly cease operations? Most modern industrial companies have heads-up enough to file a bankruptcy and ask the court to help them work out...
by Simplar | Jun 23, 2021 | Business Development, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
This blog is the culmination of our series on the CFO’s role in the management of construction companies. I have been attempting to lay out the “Best in Class” management practices that apply to the CFO. The feedback from the accounting profession...
by Simplar | Jun 16, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
As the world’s economy emerges from pandemic slumber, I’m hearing familiar rumblings from the contractors I talk to every day. Keep in mind that the construction market is not back yet. The Chatter “Material inflation is killing me. The contracts I...
by Simplar | May 25, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Engineering is a science and contractors tend to think like scientists. Tangible, measurable metrics speak to us contractors. Opinions, feelings, and guesses get less attention. Some construction professionals think that construction industry academics like myself...
by Simplar | Apr 28, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Advice on Advice After reading my last three blogs on forming a board of advisors, I can hear some of you out there saying to your computers that the last thing you need in life is an advisor who doesn’t know as much about contracting as you do, and a … Read...
