by Simplar | Nov 3, 2022 | Built Environment, Business Failure, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Weekly Construction Message
CLEAN UP YOUR BOOKS Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. While operating the nation’s largest workout firm for sureties, I had occasion to audit the financial statements of hundreds of construction companies that had failed mid-project. While the causes of those failures varied...
by Simplar | Oct 6, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Project Delivery, Weekly Construction Message
Defense Mechanisms Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Last week we renamed the impending “recession” being brought on by the Fed’s interest rate battle against inflation – “bottom-line recession” – for the construction industry. Bottom-line...
by Simplar | Sep 30, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Financial Management and Risk, Partnering, Planning, PM, Procurement, Weekly Construction Message
Recession – Yes or No? Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. As the Fed uses interest rates to joust with inflation, everyone wants to know if we’re headed into a recession. The dreaded R word is on everybody’s mind. Do I think we’re in for an immediate recession? How severe will...
by Simplar | Aug 25, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
Disruption Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. For the past eight weeks we have been focusing on managing under disorderly market conditions. The feedback I have been getting from industry leaders is that they believe this current disorderly market is a temporary phenomenon...
by Simplar | Jul 21, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Weekly Construction Message
Making Book Dr. Thomas C Schleifer I should have called The Project Selection Program the “Contractor’s Odds-Making Tool” because, in the end, I designed it to work just like a Vegas sports book. By isolating the most common causes of project...
