by Simplar | May 9, 2024 | Built Environment, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Growth, Growth, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “Dead Reckoning”
by Simplar | Mar 21, 2024 | Business of Construction, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Growth, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
… Read the rest “Dominoes”
by Simplar | Mar 7, 2024 | Business Development, Business Development, Business Development, Business Development, Growth, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
The simplest definition of conglomerate is – a number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities. What a perfect description of a construction company! As I have said so often in the past, each...
by Simplar | Feb 15, 2024 | Built Environment, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Construction top executives come up through the ranks of the construction trades or through formal education which is usually in construction management or engineering degree. This genesis bends the construction professional’s profile toward the hands-on builder who,...
by Simplar | Jul 13, 2023 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
True or False Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Beliefs The human brain is a problem-solving instrument that learns how to care for its host through experience. Its job is to keep us safe from harm and, as it makes its journey through life, it remembers the choices that work...
by Simplar | Jul 7, 2023 | Business Development, Business Development, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Experts Make Money Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Because too many construction projects are priced through a low-bid auction process, contractors have only minimal control over their selling price. Expense inflation over the extended life of a project is hard to control....
