Talent: 9 Processes to Master
D. Brown Management
April 8, 2018
Contractors who master talent will be the winners tomorrow as the shortage of critical talent will continue to impact all industries.
From Financial Management to Business Management
D. Brown Management
April 7, 2018
As contractors go through different stages of growth it often makes sense to expand the financial management role into more comprehensive business management role. At exactly what stage a contractor starts to expand this role depends on.
Levels of Design / Development / Detail - Beyond just Design
D. Brown Management
April 7, 2018
Contractors can improve business results by applying many of the same processes and vocabulary to their business that the industry is applying to projects. Consider how the different Levels of Detail (LOD) could be applied to your planning processes.
Rockefeller and Dealing With People
D. Brown Management
April 5, 2018
“Hard Skills” including the technical ability to design and build a project are the foundation of the construction industry. The “Soft Skills” such as the ability to deal with people is the glue that holds complex projects and contractors together.
Integrating Constraints and Strategic Targets
D. Brown Management
April 4, 2018
Available talent, capital, and work in the market are the basic constraints every contractor must work within. Understanding and managing all three better each year is the foundation of sustainable growth.
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Construction Craft vs Management Training
D. Brown Management
April 3, 2018
Contractors who can effectively develop management talent will dominate during the next decade. We can learn a lot of lessons from how we develop craft labor versus how we develop a Superintendent or Project Manager or any other manager.
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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Lessons from the 9th Grade
D. Brown Management
April 1, 2018
At the beginning our our lives, careers and businesses we can get into an extremely comfortable position with someone else taking nearly 100% of the responsibility. Someone else tells us what to do, how to do it and when it needs to be done by.
Recruit, Develop, and Retain
D. Brown Management
April 1, 2018
We help contractors grow profitably by focusing relentlessly on all aspects of talent development.
Org Structure Planning (2X)
D. Brown Management
March 31, 2018
We would never build a project room-by-room without having an overall design. Contractors must look at their organizational structures the same way, focusing on what they want to accomplish and designing the best way to get there.
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