Contractor Profiles in Recession Management
D. Brown Management
May 24, 2020
3X your profitability during a recession. Look at how you performed during the last recession then evaluate your current readiness and plan your next steps.
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Feeling Safe and Being Safe
D. Brown Management
April 29, 2020
These are not the same. Both must be managed. Know which of your actions contribute to each and to what degree. Know that your actions may be interpreted dramatically differently by different people.
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Always Do the Math and Build Your Own Models
D. Brown Management
April 23, 2020
You will learn more in the process of building and refining your own models than you will in just reading 1,000 headlines. How much time do you spend developing your own models as a mechanism to learn?
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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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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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Winston Churchill - Success, Failure and Enthusiasm
D. Brown Management
April 11, 2020
When there are no clear answers, it is critical to experiment, learn, and rapidly scale up those things that work. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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Calm and Deliberate Action
D. Brown Management
April 1, 2020
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. This advice is invaluable when leading a team through a crisis. Calm and deliberate action is what's required, often from incomplete and conflicting information.
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Balancing Short-Term Crisis Management with the Mid and Longer-Term
D. Brown Management
March 29, 2020
A recession post-COVID is a likely enough scenario that it must be planned for. Recessions reorder the market and competitive landscape; ensure you earn the place you want.
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Balancing Health and Wealth
D. Brown Management
March 23, 2020
There is no bigger variable in our general health - physical and mental - than having a good, stable income. As more states go into lockdown, please make sure that all leaders in your company are effectively weighing this balance.
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