004 - Job Role Transitions in Construction (Intro)
D. Brown Management
November 4, 2024
Master role transitions to set yourself and your company apart. From craft to Foreman or ownership succession, transitions challenge careers and profits. Poor planning impacts projects. 3 hours of examples + 25 resources to grow your career.
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003 - Talent Value Stream for Construction (Intro)
D. Brown Management
November 3, 2024
Turn the construction talent shortage into your advantage. As talent scarcity worsens through 2030, master your Talent Value Stream (TVS) to ensure growth isn't limited. Includes 2 hours of examples and 25+ resources to grow your career and company.
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002 - The Construction Contractor Business Model (Intro)
D. Brown Management
November 2, 2024
As contractors grow, their business model complexity evolves, affecting structure, management, and people. Visualizing this reveals bottlenecks. Includes 3 hours of examples and 50+ resources (tools, books, training, articles) to help your business grow.
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001 - Stages of Contractor Growth (Intro)
D. Brown Management
November 1, 2024
Every contractor grows through six general stages, with each requiring different strategies, systems, structure, and leadership focus. This 90-minute discussion covers the basic challenges with examples for all levels.
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Definition - Deliberate Practice
D. Brown Management
September 8, 2024
Practicing with a clear awareness of the specific components of a skill we are working to improve, and exactly how to improve them. It is not simply doing something repetitively for enjoyment or until it becomes mindless.
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Market Share and Margins (Economic Theory and Practice)
D. Brown Management
September 8, 2024
When evaluating or deciding on a market strategy, it is helpful for contractors to understand some economic theories and real-world examples of how margins and market share relate to each other.
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Definition - Attention Saturation Bias
D. Brown Management
September 8, 2024
When people are exposed to something too often, they tend to overlook it or underestimate its significance. This can cause critical information to fade into the background and be ignored.
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Summary Definition: Aptitude X Desire X Learning and Practice = Capability and Capacity
D. Brown Management
September 8, 2024
This is the basic formula that determines what an individual and team will have in terms of capability and capacity.
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Strategy, Planning, and Execution Models
D. Brown Management
September 1, 2024
There are many models and tools to help businesses make strategic decisions, develop a plan, and execute. All have strengths and there are many similarities in the underlying principles as well as their origins. None are perfect. How to choose and use...
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Construction Superheroes
D. Brown Management
September 1, 2024
Building a project and a construction business definitely requires heroic efforts at times, but full-time superheroes stifle growth, introduce risks, and rarely make for smooth successions.
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