by Simplar | Feb 29, 2024 | Growth, Growth, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Growth and success are almost synonymous in the construction lexicon. There are a couple of reasons for this: Ongoing business for construction contractors is, in fact, new business. As soon as we sign one contract, we begin to look for the next. Contractors must...
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 professionalās profile toward the hands-on builder who,...
by Simplar | Nov 15, 2023 | Business of Construction, Growth, Weekly Construction Message
I started my career in construction as a carpenter apprentice decades ago. My brother and I eventually formed our own general contracting business that operated continuously until last year when my brother retired. Years ago, while running our start-up contracting...
by Simplar | Mar 16, 2023 | Business Development, Business Development, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Innovation Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The construction industry has changed at its core. Most of the labor force that delivered construction services to the nation has retired and taken their unique level of expertise, productivity, and efficiency with them. Those of...
by Simplar | Nov 24, 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
Can You Be Flexible? Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. The construction industry is an outlier that evades classic management theory taught at all the nation’s prestigious business schools. The price of our construction services is set well in advance typically through...
