The Business of Building Series
D. Brown Management
April 7, 2024
Building projects requires technical expertise and resources. Building a construction business is about developing and aligning those capabilities with customers. Growth and time require different leadership focus, strategies, systems, and structure.
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Headcount, Management Structure, and Systems
D. Brown Management
March 23, 2024
Your management structure and systems must be able to support your forecasted 2-month peak headcount, including the ramp-up to that peak.
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Management Systems - 10 Principles for Effectiveness
D. Brown Management
January 21, 2024
Management systems are the glue that connects a contactor's strategies, plans, projects, people, and resources together to make progress toward its vision. Management systems are the foundation for growth and must evolve as conditions change.
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Rubber Ducks for Planning and Troubleshooting Effectively
D. Brown Management
January 21, 2024
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein Wisdom that is as applicable to physics as it is to being a Foreman, Project Manager, or Owner of a construction company.
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Human Motivations)
D. Brown Management
January 1, 2024
Understanding human motivation is critical for all levels of management and leadership, starting with managing ourselves. There is no single "Perfect Model" defining what motivates every person but there are some great models to help our understanding.
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Organizational Change and Sustainable Growth
D. Brown Management
September 10, 2023
Improving the rate that change is adopted across the whole company becomes increasingly more important and more challenging as a contractor grows. We will cover the basics of change, including how it is linked to strategic choices and management.
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Management and Leadership (Similarities and Key Differences)
D. Brown Management
September 3, 2023
A growing contractor requires both great leadership (right direction) and great management (right actions). The creativity required to attract, motivate, develop, and retain people are where management and leadership intersect.
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Management Team Development Phases Within Each Stage of Growth
D. Brown Management
July 29, 2023
The management team leading a contractor through the different stages of growth will typically navigate three phases at each stage - Emerging, Hollow, and Ready. Understanding these phases guides growth planning, recruitment, development, and succession.
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Headcount, Stages of Contractor Growth, and Growth Inflection Points
D. Brown Management
July 29, 2023
Every contractor will navigate very predictable stages of growth. Each of these represents about a tripling of headcount and requires different leadership focus, strategies, structures, and systems. Stress and failure points are also very predictable.
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5C Troubleshooting of Performance
D. Brown Management
September 7, 2020
Ask great questions around the five interrelated categories that cause most failures in outcomes or process, including choice, capabilities, capacity, controls, and the conditions in which all those occurred.
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