Setting Standards and the Feedback Loop
D. Brown Management
September 7, 2020
Set the standard. Train to the standard. Certify to the standard. Plan the work to the standard. Execute to the plan and the standard. Check against the standard. Make prioritized improvements to the standard, training, planning, and execution.
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Types of Trust - Breaking it Down to Build Effective Teams
D. Brown Management
August 16, 2020
Build your career, team, project, and company faster by learning to quickly develop trust, including being able to troubleshoot problems. Trust is a very broad term and too often misunderstood. Trust is a verb much more than a noun.
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Are You Solving the Right Category of the Problem?
D. Brown Management
August 15, 2020
Effectively prioritize, define, and solve problems in your organization.
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Contractor Profiles in Recession Management
D. Brown Management
May 24, 2020
3X your profitability during a recession. Look at how you performed during the last recession then evaluate your current readiness and plan your next steps.
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The Truth About Business Development
D. Brown Management
May 16, 2020
There are way more potential customers than you think, and most don't even know who you are. That's your biggest challenge and your biggest opportunity.
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4 Elements of Commander's Intent
D. Brown Management
May 4, 2020
Effectively execute your strategies across the whole organization while allowing your team the flexibility to adapt for the specific conditions they are facing.
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Change Management Fact #1 - It Will Happen
D. Brown Management
May 3, 2020
Projects are complex with evolving requirements and changing site conditions. Mistakes will be made. It is how the collective project team manages these changes that ultimately determines success at all levels.
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8 Stages of Personal and Team Growth
D. Brown Management
May 3, 2020
Exploration expands our context. Learning and deliberate practice builds and demonstrates our individual productivity. Develop team productivity with four levels of leveraging yourself through others. Take an inventory of where you and your team are at.
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10 Jugs of Wine - A Tale from Japan
D. Brown Management
April 30, 2020
Diffusion of personal responsibility can occur quickly on teams. Everyone must contribute. This is a simple tale from Japan that elegantly illustrates the point and includes how people react even when the failed results are clear.
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Feeling Safe and Being Safe
D. Brown Management
April 29, 2020
These are not the same. Both must be managed. Know which of your actions contribute to each and to what degree. Know that your actions may be interpreted dramatically differently by different people.
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