Reflections on Learning to Ski - 8 Core Principles for Learning a Completely New Skill
David Brown
January 6, 2020
While I am learning every day, it has been a very long time since I’ve put myself in the position of learning something completely new. That has now changed, as over the last couple of weeks of 2019, I learned to ski.
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Balancing Training and Coaching Effectively
D. Brown Management
December 14, 2019
Every contracting business is made up of many jobs that need to be done, ranging from relatively simple and short-term tasks to complex, ambiguous, and long-term objectives.
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Early Identification as a Trainable Skill
D. Brown Management
April 15, 2019
The ability to identify potential changes early is a skill that can be tested, trained, and managed just like a craft skill.
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Feedback vs. Criticism and Self-Development
D. Brown Management
February 19, 2019
Self-leadership and self-development are incredibly important habits for everyone. For those who are in positions to lead and influence others, these are some of the most critical habits to develop in others.
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Appearance and Experience of Management Control
D. Brown Management
February 5, 2019
As your career develops and you grow into roles of greater responsibility, one of the biggest challenges is what Jennifer Garvey Berger calls “The paradox of the appearance of increasing control and the experience of decreasing control.”
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Lean Principle - People First (Then Process and Tools)
D. Brown Management
September 24, 2018
To optimize productivity, a contractor must focus on their people first, then processes and tools including technology as an integrated management system with a hierarchy. This is not a linear process: S.M.A.R.T. Experiments + Continuous Improvement.
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Closing Knowledge Gaps - The Formula
D. Brown Management
July 12, 2018
Here is the “magic” formula for closing the knowledge gap from where you are to where you want to be!
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Six Daily Questions to Drive Team Engagement
D. Brown Management
June 18, 2018
Construction leaders are facing a growing challenge working to keep project teams working effectively together across multiple companies. At the business level, the need to keep team members engaged to both attract and retain talent.
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Seven Basic Project Team Objectives
D. Brown Management
May 1, 2018
Every construction project team has seven basic objectives. Expand on these to build great evaluation, development, and troubleshooting tools for your business.
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Stages of Development - The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
D. Brown Management
April 15, 2018
Building even a simple construction project requires the coordination of 100+ people. While we may like to think of ourselves as “Independent” this is not the highest stage of development.
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