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...
by Simplar | Feb 22, 2024 | Financial Management and Risk, Organization Transformation, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
The term “Corporate Darwinism” was the title of a business book published in 1966 that tracked the stages of birth, growth, and death of the typical American industrial corporation. According to the research, all start-ups that survive pass through these...
by Simplar | May 18, 2023 | Built Environment, Business Development, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Change Management
It Takes a Team Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Even with a visionary founder or CEO firmly in control, a professional team is necessary to execute the founder’s or CEO’s vision of success. As I referenced in last week’s message, day to day management of construction work...
by Simplar | Mar 16, 2023 | Business Development, Business Development, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Innovation Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The construction industry has changed at its core. Most of the labor force that delivered construction services to the nation has retired and taken their unique level of expertise, productivity, and efficiency with them. Those of...
by Simplar | Nov 24, 2022 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Can You Be Flexible? Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The construction industry is an outlier that evades classic management theory taught at all the nation’s prestigious business schools. The price of our construction services is set well in advance typically through...
by Simplar | Oct 20, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Facility Management, Organization Transformation, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Partnering, Planning, PM, Procurement, Project Delivery, Risk Management, Risk Management, Risk Management, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
IF Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. It is somehow comforting when other experts confirm your view of the world. Just this week in Engineering News Record: ENR October 12, 2022 Construction Wages Grow at Fastest Rate in Decades Despite Recession Threat By James Leggate... 
