by Simplar | Feb 8, 2024 | Business Failure, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
This year we have been examining the reality that our beliefs impact our business decision making. From the very beginning as children, we lay down little truths in our brain stem that never again come up for examination. This is how the human brain helps the race...
by Simplar | Nov 30, 2023 | Business of Construction, Growth, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
What is clear after 50 years of research into the business of construction is that construction professionals make business decisions based on their beliefs. Beliefs are firmly held convictions that go largely unexamined but nonetheless strongly influence our...
by Simplar | Nov 23, 2023 | Business of Construction, Weekly Construction Message
Beliefs are firmly held convictions that go largely unexamined but nonetheless influence our decision making without us being aware of them in the background of our thinking. In last week’s message, I listed ten beliefs that influence construction...
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 subcontractor’s 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...
