by Simplar | Feb 24, 2022 | Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Labor & Labor Issues, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Weekly Construction Message
Strategy for Success in 2022 – An Unpresented Market For the entire year this blog will be trying to help construction professionals fashion a response to the four factors that are affecting the 2022 construction market: (1) Inflation (2) Shortage of skilled...
by Simplar | Feb 3, 2022 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
What is a Construction Company? The title of this blog may seem like an unusual question. But if you try to sell your company or are thinking about buying another, the question takes on a whole new significance. Just think about it for a minute. Is a construction...
by Simplar | Nov 4, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development, Business Development, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Prospering Cyclical Market, Weekly Construction Message
Stable Markets: Where All Profits Reside Two weeks ago, I ended the message by expounding Schleifer’s First Law: Contractors Thrive During Stable Markets Today, I begin with Schleifer’s Second Law of Market Dynamics: There is No Such Thing as a Stable...
by Simplar | Aug 5, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
“Risk is Measured by What You Choose to do more than How You Choose to do It” In the growth markets we will be approaching, with a housing boom well underway and a $1 trillion infrastructure bill working its way through Congress, enthusiastic contractors are tempted...
by Simplar | Jun 16, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
As the world’s economy emerges from pandemic slumber, I’m hearing familiar rumblings from the contractors I talk to every day. Keep in mind that the construction market is not back yet. The Chatter “Material inflation is killing me. The contracts I...
