Organizational Strength (Quantifying Current State)
David Brown
July 13, 2025
Quantifying organizational strength visually allows you to both see and measure current gaps and opportunities. This helps contractors better allocate resources for recruiting, training, and development aligned with their business plans.
Field Operations OrgDev Talent
DD001 - Locus of Control
David Brown
June 9, 2024
Expanding on locus of control, including how it drives decision making at all levels and answering three questions: Decisions from the top, how to improve locus of control, and how it impacts technology selection & use.
management Talent
1 Million Point Evaluation for Contractor Operations
D. Brown Management
June 2, 2024
How effective is your whole system from strategic market choices through project exit? This simple evaluation exercise with your team will help you align then eliminate your key bottlenecks and constraint.
business management strategy Talent
TOOL: Leader Standard Work (LSW) Template for Field Managers
D. Brown Management
May 25, 2024
Excel format that you can use to standardize work across your field managers and synchronize that work internally and externally for optimal effectiveness. This tool will help develop your team faster and deliver projects more consistently.
field operations productivity Talent
Resource - Leader Standard Work (LSW)
D. Brown Management
May 25, 2024
Leader Standard Work (LSW) is a tool and process that can dramatically improve performance, lower stress, and accelerate the development of people if the timing is right for implementation. This is a collection of resources to help make those decisions.
business management field operations Talent
Job Role Complexity: Four Major Factors
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Job roles have varying degrees of complexity requiring different types of people to fill the role. Understanding the four major factors will help with job role design, organizational structure, and selection of the person for the role.
business management Talent
Growth Trajectories for Talent Development
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Most people want to think about the growth trajectory of their lives, careers, and business as being a steady climb up a 100% grade - reality is very different and organizational development must align with reality.
business management Organizational Development Talent
Multiple Dimensions of Talent
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
People are muti-faceted, there is no precise way to measure any dimension, and people are constantly changing. Understanding just some basics about the various dimensions of talent can help you be a better manager and design better jobs.
Career management Talent
Aligning Career and Company Trajectories
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
Alignment of the people and job roles within a contracting business is what creates the synergies (1+1=3). Alignment of career and business trajectories is what makes both sustainable.
business management Organizational Development Talent
The Journey (Length, Complexity, Ambiguity, and Guardrails)
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
Nearly everyone can get in their vehicle and drive to a destination at the end of a two-lane road. No single person can look at open land, select a place to build a city, build that city, build the infrastructure including roads, and build the vehicles.
Talent