8 Stages of Personal and Team Growth
D. Brown Management
May 3, 2020
Exploration expands our context. Learning and deliberate practice builds and demonstrates our individual productivity. Develop team productivity with four levels of leveraging yourself through others. Take an inventory of where you and your team are at.
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Learning, Doing and Teaching
D. Brown Management
April 14, 2020
Growing yourself. Growing others. Growing your company. You will never achieve your full potential if you are not pushing your limits every day on what you are capable of doing.
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Principled Leadership Versus Prescriptive Direction
D. Brown Management
April 11, 2020
Where is your comfort zone? What are your tendencies? What's the right balance? Build more effective teams, projects, and construction business by understanding these differences in people and role requirements.
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Reflections on Learning to Ski - 8 Core Principles for Learning a Completely New Skill
David Brown
January 6, 2020
While I am learning every day, it has been a very long time since I’ve put myself in the position of learning something completely new. That has now changed, as over the last couple of weeks of 2019, I learned to ski.
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Balancing Training and Coaching Effectively
D. Brown Management
December 14, 2019
Every contracting business is made up of many jobs that need to be done, ranging from relatively simple and short-term tasks to complex, ambiguous, and long-term objectives.
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Early Identification as a Trainable Skill
D. Brown Management
April 15, 2019
The ability to identify potential changes early is a skill that can be tested, trained, and managed just like a craft skill.
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Feedback vs. Criticism and Self-Development
D. Brown Management
February 19, 2019
Self-leadership and self-development are incredibly important habits for everyone. For those who are in positions to lead and influence others, these are some of the most critical habits to develop in others.
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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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Closing Knowledge Gaps - The Formula
D. Brown Management
July 12, 2018
Here is the “magic” formula for closing the knowledge gap from where you are to where you want to be!
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Stages of Development - The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
D. Brown Management
April 15, 2018
Building even a simple construction project requires the coordination of 100+ people. While we may like to think of ourselves as “Independent” this is not the highest stage of development.
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