Integrated Safety, Quality, and Production
D. Brown Management
June 8, 2025
Integrated safety, quality, and production improve all outcomes with growth. Silos force functions to fight over a “fixed pie,” driving trade-offs.
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Front-Line Job Role Progression (Leading Self)
D. Brown Management
June 8, 2025
Clarity around job role expectations, progression paths, timelines (min/max), and required resources is the foundation for building people, projects, and construction companies.
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Building Your Target Talent Model
D. Brown Management
May 25, 2025
Talent is the most constrained resource in the construction industry through at least 2030. With the industry's growth outlook, the contractors with the best Talent Value Streams (TVS) will dramatically outperform. Sadly, there will also be failures.
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Emotional Intelligence: Building Inner Strength and Impact
D. Brown Management
May 24, 2025
Emotional intelligence competencies are the impact multiplier for your technical competencies. Daniel Goleman has spent his career focused on defining, evaluating, and building these capabilities.
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Development Progression (And Joy Level)
D. Brown Management
April 12, 2025
We’re all born with aptitudes waiting to be discovered or developed. From the start, we form preferences. How those preferences become strengths—and how we use them in life and business—shapes both our joy and competitiveness.
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First of a Kind: Managing to Accelerate Outcomes and Mitigate Risks
D. Brown Management
March 16, 2025
Special attention is required for all "First of a Kind" projects, job roles, processes, and tools. This is often overlooked, slowing down progress and creating unnecessary risks for contractors.
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Management System Hierarchy Example
D. Brown Management
March 16, 2025
A management system has hierarchies from culture through to the individual steps in a procedure. These hierarchies must be integrated with strategic decisions, the organizational structure, and training to create a competitive advantage.
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Management System Improvements (4 Interlinked Phases)
D. Brown Management
March 9, 2025
Many improvements fall short of expectations because steps are skipped in the earlier phases. Following these four phases will result in faster overall adoption of the changes, better outcomes, and most importantly, development of the team.
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Work Observations and Time Studies (Basic Overview)
D. Brown Management
February 15, 2025
Work observations and time studies are related but distinctly different. Both are incredibly powerful tools for management, process improvement, and talent development. Starter resources and use cases below.
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Alignment from Strategy to Execution
D. Brown Management
January 18, 2025
Misalignment between how projects are estimated and how they are built creates subpar outcomes at best and sometimes results in catastrophic failure. Alignment is not a task to be completed. It is an ongoing process starting at the top.
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