by Simplar | Mar 3, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
Beliefs And Harmful Bias Continuing our Best-in-Class series: Last year we discussed the concept of “unexamined beliefs” and the role they play in the management decision-making process. We talked about how these deeply held beliefs go largely unexamined....
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development
Stop the Madness A subcontractorâs Perspective  Construction projects are highly complex, collaborative, interdependent, long-lasting, team efforts whose exact final cost is, in point of fact, impossible to estimate. It has never been a matter of skullduggery or...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership
The Impact of Beliefs  Perhaps no other single factor has a greater impact on the management of construction concerns than the unexamined beliefs held by senior management. What we believe to be true, (whether it is or not), affects every choice we make. And our most...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Failure
Bad Beliefs The Root of All Evil It took me 30 years of research to get to the hidden root cause of construction business failures: Bad management decisions are caused by firmly held bad beliefs. Beliefs In other words, whether we are aware of it or not, every...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Leadership
Beware the Pitfalls Of Your Beliefs  Over these past six weeks, we have taken the opportunity during the COVID pandemic discussions to evaluate construction organization performance against the performance of âbest in classâ construction firms. The Construction...
