SURPRISE We’ve Run Out of Money

SURPRISE We’ve Run Out of Money

by | Apr 28, 2022 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Cash Flow (Getting Paid), Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message

SURPRISE We’ve Run Out of Money! What surprised me most over the many years my consultancy finished hundreds of jobs for sureties after contractors had failed mid-project was how many contractors were surprised when they ran out of money. Most of them believed...
Capacity

Capacity

by | Apr 21, 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

Capacity Public financial markets value companies based on their ability to earn money into the future. Financial analysts apply a multiple to the current proven earnings of a given publicly traded company in an attempt to accurately predict the value of future...
You Can’t be a Surety

You Can’t be a Surety

by | Jan 14, 2021 | Risk Management

Subject: the role of sureties You Can’t be a Surety So Learn to Act Like One  Thirty years of accumulated study as a contractor, work-out specialist, consultant, and research professor have verified the following realities about risk in the construction industry:...
To See Ourselves As We Really Are

To See Ourselves As We Really Are

by | Jan 14, 2021 | Growth, Growth

To See Ourselves As We Really Are Subject: The 5 Stages of Growth The company I founded worked for sureties across the country completing failed construction projects the sureties had bonded. During this period, I assisted in the resolution or salvage of hundreds of...