TOOL: Your Leadership Pipeline and Business Model
D. Brown Management
June 9, 2024
With each stage of growth or new job role, your individual leadership focus must change along with how you view your leadership pipeline. This learning and application guide will help you start that process.
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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.
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Project Value Stream (PVS) - The Extended View
D. Brown Management
June 2, 2024
The degree to which contractors understand and fully integrate their Project Value Stream (PVS) internally and externally determines their ability to grow sustainably and profitably.
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Competition - What Do You Really Know?
D. Brown Management
June 2, 2024
Contractors typically pay too much or too little attention to their competition. The best contractors strike the right balance spending most of their time focused on customers while being deliberate in knowing their competition.
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Resource - Negotiation (3 Prerequisites + 4 Perspectives)
D. Brown Management
May 26, 2024
Negotiation skills will enhance nearly everything your management teams do from winning work through building the project to working with your bank and surety. This is a collection of the best resources we've used to build these capabilities.
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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.
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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.
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No Answers?
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
A handful of quick tips to help you get the answers you need. This is a critical skillset for building projects, growing a contracting business, and developing careers.
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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.
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Evaluation: Stage of Growth + State of Management Team & Systems
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Management teams and systems develop through three phases at each stage of growth. Use these 7 steps to evaluate where your team is at.
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