Selecting and Managing People for a Job Role
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
A job role is a collection of related tasks and decisions to achieve a set of outcomes. A person brings a wide range of desires, skills, and experience to that job role. Aligning these is the discipline of management.
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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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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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Multiple Dimensions of Talent
D. Brown Management
May 12, 2024
People are muti-faceted, there is no precise way to measure any dimension, and people are constantly changing. Understanding just some basics about the various dimensions of talent can help you be a better manager and design better jobs.
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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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The Journey (Length, Complexity, Ambiguity, and Guardrails)
D. Brown Management
May 2, 2024
Nearly everyone can get in their vehicle and drive to a destination at the end of a two-lane road. No single person can look at open land, select a place to build a city, build that city, build the infrastructure including roads, and build the vehicles.
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