Definition - Decision Rights
D. Brown Management
April 14, 2024
Decision Rights define the business decisions that need to be made, who is involved in making them, and how they will be made through processes, tools, and operating rhythms.
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Definition - Decentralization
D. Brown Management
April 14, 2024
Decentralization is the delegation of entrepreneurial levels of decision rights in an organization for leadership development, scalability, sustainability, and succession.
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The Business of Building Series
D. Brown Management
April 7, 2024
Building projects requires technical expertise and resources. Building a construction business is about developing and aligning those capabilities with customers. Growth and time require different leadership focus, strategies, systems, and structure.
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Connecting Metrics to Activities and Outcomes
D. Brown Management
March 31, 2024
Outcomes are created through doing the right activities. Data is only a proxy for that activity and a metric is a synthesis of lots of data points. Metrics are valuable, but always have a skeptical view of proxies for performance, especially with growth.
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TOOL: Growth Inflection Point Summary + Self-Evaluation Worksheet
D. Brown Management
March 25, 2024
At certain growth inflection points, you must re-evaluate your strategy, systems, structure, and leadership focus. Use this worksheet as a guide to help you determine if you are at an inflection point requiring change or focus on refinement.
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Headcount, Management Structure, and Systems
D. Brown Management
March 23, 2024
Your management structure and systems must be able to support your forecasted 2-month peak headcount, including the ramp-up to that peak.
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Succession Readiness at All Levels
D. Brown Management
March 16, 2024
Succession goes far beyond ownership transitions every generation or two. Succession readiness at all levels is what allows contractors to grow profitably and safely. How would you evaluate succession readiness across your team?
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Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) and Contractor Growth
D. Brown Management
March 16, 2024
A responsibility matrix is a simple but powerful tool for helping everyone on a project and in the company see who is responsible for what. With a few added columns, it can easily indicate when, what tools, and link to the "how-to" procedures.
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Strategic Choices and Operational Execution
D. Brown Management
March 10, 2024
The best strategic choices will not outrun the results of poor operational execution. The best operational execution will be limited in performance by the quality of strategic choices. Both must be in alignment.
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Racing, Equipment, Heart Rates, and Contractor Growth
D. Brown Management
March 10, 2024
The fastest marathon runner used shoes costing $300 and is 2X as fast as an intermediate runner. The fastest 100-mile bicycle time is about 2.5X faster than the fastest marathon runner, going nearly 4X as far. Contractor and career growth is similar.
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