Contractors Exist to Build Projects - The Business of Building
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
Contractors exist to build projects. Delivering projects to a customer is the foundation all contractors are built upon. The business of building is about continually delivering more projects that are progressively larger and more complex.
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Aligning Career and Company Trajectories
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
Alignment of the people and job roles within a contracting business is what creates the synergies (1+1=3). Alignment of career and business trajectories is what makes both sustainable.
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Five Mountains - Where Are You At?
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
As you think about your career and business, there are five basic mountains to climb. Each has its own challenges and rewards. Each has its own peaks and valleys during the climb. Each progressively adds more value to the next generation.
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Accountability Prerequisites
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
Accountability in a job role is critical for contractors to grow. Accountability without clarity, capability, and capacity only leads to stress, lower performance, and higher risk over time.
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Cranes and a Construction Business
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
There is a lot of intentionality around all aspects of every crane lift, including systems for double-checking and approvals. There is far less intentionality around the business equivalents for contractors and that dramatically impacts performance.
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Management Role Promotion Checklist (8 Steps)
D. Brown Management
April 20, 2024
Are you responsible for or involved in making the decisions about moving a person into a management role? Are you considering a move into a first-time, different, or higher-level management role? Use this 8-step checklist to help you evaluate.
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6 Progressive Levels of Standards Development
D. Brown Management
April 20, 2024
Standards progress through six basic levels as a contractor grows based on impact, frequency, and quantity of different people doing them. Optimum outcomes including scalability are based on choosing the right level - higher is not always better.
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Structure, Decision Rights, and Information Systems
D. Brown Management
April 15, 2024
Alignment of strategy, management structure, decision rights, and information systems creates consistently good outcomes for growing contractors and faster development of talent.
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Connecting Metrics to Activities and Outcomes
D. Brown Management
March 31, 2024
Outcomes are created through doing the right activities. Data is only a proxy for that activity and a metric is a synthesis of lots of data points. Metrics are valuable, but always have a skeptical view of proxies for performance, especially with growth.
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Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) and Contractor Growth
D. Brown Management
March 16, 2024
A responsibility matrix is a simple but powerful tool for helping everyone on a project and in the company see who is responsible for what. With a few added columns, it can easily indicate when, what tools, and link to the "how-to" procedures.
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