In The Eye of the Beholder Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Wall Street investment advisors are beginning to act like contractors. Hedge fund managers now value tech companies based on a multiple of future revenues rather than a multiple of past earnings. Revenues trump...
Back To the Beginning Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. For 30 years I have been researching the causes of construction business failure. The study began years ago when I operated the largest national consultancy firm completing projects interrupted when bonded contractors...
Disruption Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. For the past eight weeks we have been focusing on managing under disorderly market conditions. The feedback I have been getting from industry leaders is that they believe this current disorderly market is a temporary phenomenon...
Building A Stable Organization from Within Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Our industry’s skilled labor shortage is not new. It is just worse with the pandemic. A growing shortage of skilled labor has haunted the construction industry for the past 15 years. Research has...
Project Selection Realities Dr Thomas C Schleifer The gambler plays a hunch and takes a flyer. The odds maker weights past performance variables and uses probability statistics to estimate the possibility of future successful outcomes. Who do you think most often...
The Gambler Dr Thomas C Schleifer Why do so many construction companies fail without anyone realizing they were about to go under? When I ran the largest surety consultancy in the country that completed projects for bonding companies after construction firms had...
