by Simplar | Feb 17, 2022 | Facility Management, Facility Management, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
Building Your Team – Board of Advisors Continuing our Science of Construction Business Management Series: If this confounded pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that running a construction company during this era is complex. The ever-grinding shortage of...
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 | Sep 16, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Labor & Labor Issues, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
The Project Selection Tool is designed to aid contractors in picking projects that are most suitable to their firm’s expertise and have the most likely prospects of success for all stakeholders. But what about owners and designers? Historically many have limited...
by Simplar | Jul 29, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Current Events/Interests, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
When you think about it, in the modern industrial world it is absurd to be talking about customer service as if it’s a novel concept. Winning over new customers and converting them into repeat customers is the main focus of modern management theory. Service...
by Simplar | May 12, 2021 | Business Development, Business Development, Leadership, Leadership, Weekly Construction Message
This year we are going from top to bottom in our review of construction’s “best-in-class” management practices. We began at the traditional top of business organizations, the Board of Directors (Advisors). Because the construction industry is largely made up of...
