Deliberately Building Your Perfect Life
D. Brown Management
April 22, 2020
What did you do today to improve your value-add and do more of what you love? The foundation of all sustainably growing contractors is a team with each person individually strong, sharing common values, and aligned around a common purpose.
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The Basic Math of Prioritization
D. Brown Management
April 21, 2020
Build your project, career, and business more profitably by continually allocating more of your resources to their "Highest & Best" use, focusing on prioritized probabilities rather than possibilities.
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Creative Adaptability as a Company Culture and Capability
D. Brown Management
April 20, 2020
Ensure that your business and career thrives in the current COVID shutdown and in the likely post-COVID recession. Be like Batman and build yourself into who you need to be in order to thrive in all situations.
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COVID - Ask the Right Questions
D. Brown Management
April 20, 2020
Asking the right questions about how COVID-19 is truly impacting you in the short and long-term will help ensure that you are solving the right problems. This applies to all complex problems faced in life and business.
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Stephen Schwarzman - Time Wounds All Deals
D. Brown Management
April 19, 2020
Speed is a competitive advantage and a capability that can be built. Contractors work through hundreds of deals each year, including negotiating to win new work, joint ventures, recruiting key talent, successions, and mergers and acquisitions.
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General Mattis - Operations Occur at the Speed of Trust
D. Brown Management
April 19, 2020
Retired General Jim Mattis uses the word trust 65+ times in Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead. "Trusted personal relationships are the foundation for effective fighting teams, whether on the playing field, the boardroom, or the battlefield."
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COVID - End of Week 5
D. Brown Management
April 19, 2020
As we end the 5th week since the first shelter-in-place orders, the country will begin to re-open. This will be uncertain and frustrating for contractors. Guidelines will change daily and won't be consistent by state, county, city, company, or contract.
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Jeff Bezos - All Overnight Success Takes About 10 Years
D. Brown Management
April 19, 2020
Do you have the stamina for success? Being successful in anything worth having--relationships, careers, companies, health, and life in general--requires the daily discipline of working deliberately toward your goals.
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The Four Traits of Successful Executives
D. Brown Management
April 19, 2020
There is a lot more to success than being charismatic and extroverted with a perfect track record. The ghSMART company conducted research on over 2,000 leaders, correlating detailed notes from the candidate screening process with their results as leaders.
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General Mattis and Making Speed Part of Your Culture
D. Brown Management
April 19, 2020
The concepts of speed, harmony, commander’s intent, and leadership form the bedrock of General Mattis’s philosophy. Make speed your competitive advantage in your career, on your project, and as a contractor.
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