by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Introduction to Business Planning The best lesson in planning I ever had was not in business school. It was attending a normal weekly contractor staff meeting and listening to an experienced and knowledgeable old-time contractor teach his management team how to manage...
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...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Failure
Bad Beliefs The Root of All Evil It took me 30 years of research to get to the hidden root cause of construction business failures: Bad management decisions are caused by firmly held bad beliefs. Beliefs In other words, whether we are aware of it or not, every...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Financial Management and Risk
Profitability Equals Viability Dateline: Engineering News Record, August 26, 2020, Debra K. Rubin and Peter Reina “…As it moves away from lump-sum contracting, in the wake of project charges and recent quarter losses to focus on higher-margin...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Development
Reimagining Your Company During the Pandemic Crisis Getting upset, angry or fearful over the business interruption caused by the current public health crisis is a form of futile resistance. Resistance to an event that has already occurred is often referred to as...
