Owner Occupied Real Estate for Contractors - Lease or Buy?
D. Brown Management
December 23, 2020
There is no simple answer to this question. Much of the advice you will get has bias attached. Start your decision making process by building your own models and making general assumptions looking into the future. Use this Excel model to start.
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4 Elements of Commander's Intent
D. Brown Management
May 4, 2020
Effectively execute your strategies across the whole organization while allowing your team the flexibility to adapt for the specific conditions they are facing.
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Change Management Dashboards
D. Brown Management
March 29, 2019
Summarize your detailed change tracking logs with concise dashboards that give you critical information in a format that allows you to see the big picture while still having enough information to be actionable.
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Change Order Management Funnel
D. Brown Management
March 19, 2019
Managing changes effectively means that you need clear visibility across all projects. While the workflow will vary by project, the key milestones in your internal process will remain fixed.
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Change Management Workflow
D. Brown Management
March 18, 2019
For contractors to manage changes effectively, they must understand the entire change management workflow up through the project owner’s approval and payment process.
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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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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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Impacted Productivity - Five Elements of a Good Argument
D. Brown Management
August 25, 2018
Specialty contractors are continually faced with costly impacts to their labor productivity with many beyond their direct control. The best Project Managers know how continually expand their influence.
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The Contractor Scoreboard - A Contractor Must Do 3 Things
D. Brown Management
August 11, 2018
This outcome-based scoreboard keeps everyone focused on what matters. Avoid metric overload and diffusion of resources. All other metrics throughout all levels of the organization fall into a hierarchy below these with priorities changing over time.
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