by Simplar | Feb 10, 2021 | Weekly Construction Message
Let’s Talk the Business of Construction Schleifer’s Weekly Construction Message Please circulate this widely. It will benefit your constituents. This research is continuous and includes new information weekly as it becomes available. Thank you, Tom Management...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning
The Top Ten Leadership Skills Needed To Navigate the Current Pandemic Business Environment “These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls” – (Thomas Paine). In uncertain times, we tend to navigate in fits and starts, first reacting one way, then another, often...
by Simplar | Jul 3, 2025 | Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Risk Management, Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
Back in the 1960s “What Me Worry” was the masthead motto of a little counterculture publication known as Mad Magazine that is still around somewhere to this day. Some of you more senior readers out there may remember it. At that time, my brother and I were...
by Simplar | Aug 3, 2023 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Growth, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
We Are the World Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The construction industry functions in a world economy beyond our national borders. The United States is the 2nd largest importer of building construction materials in the world, importing most of it from China, South Korea,...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Overhead
Overhead The Silent Killer I have rarely had much success talking to construction company management about overhead. Whenever I broach the subject of controlling overhead at one of my seminars, I can see eyes gradually glaze over and the assembled home office people...
