Different Stages of Market Growth and the Types of People Required
D. Brown Management
February 1, 2020
Every contractor will experience different stages of growth as a company and within the markets they are competing in. Understanding the different types of people required at each stage will help the contractor navigate them smoother.
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Evolving Focus with Growth and Leadership Levels
D. Brown Management
January 24, 2020
All contractors are built on the same foundation, which starts with the amazing crafts people. With growth in the business, project size, and your level of leadership, the time you allocate to different layers of the pyramid must evolve.
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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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Changes - Problem or Fact?
D. Brown Management
March 14, 2019
If you perceive that changes are a problem in construction, then you are likely framing them as a point of blaming others. This framing will impact your ability to effectively manage changes.
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A Business Exists to Serve a Customer
D. Brown Management
February 11, 2019
Without satisfied and growing customers, nothing else a contractor does will matter. Few things are more profitable for contractors than recurring work negotiated with a select group of project owners.
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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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Perspectives on Development - Focusing on Strengths AND Weaknesses
D. Brown Management
January 29, 2019
There are a couple of schools of thought on development. The highest performers tend to embrace both of them. Don’t ever let a weakness of yours or anyone around you become an excuse for not achieving your goals.
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Leadership and Management of Details
D. Brown Management
August 17, 2018
Building a great contracting business requires the right balance of leadership and management. While it is possible to separate them the truth is that many of the top leaders are relentlessly disciplined managers.
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Diffusion of Innovations Curve - Leading Change
D. Brown Management
June 4, 2018
The contractors that dominate tomorrow’s market will be those that have built strong capabilities for identifying opportunities or problems and then rapidly making lasting changes throughout the organization.
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Asking Good Questions
Steve Jost
April 2, 2018
The ability to ask good questions will improve your learning, teaching, hiring, selling projects, building projects, and growing your contracting business. The discipline of formulating good questions often answers the original question and many more.
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