Front-Line Job Role Progression (Leading Self)
D. Brown Management
June 8, 2025
Clarity around job role expectations, progression paths, timelines (min/max), and required resources is the foundation for building people, projects, and construction companies.
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Leadership Combinations and States of Market Growth
D. Brown Management
December 21, 2024
There is a beautiful tension in leadership teams that is required for growth. That tension shifts with different stages of a market's growth and must be integrated with the contractor's stage of growth as a company.
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Org Structure Planning (Current State)
D. Brown Management
August 25, 2024
Taking an objective look at your current-state organizational structure and the people in each role forms the foundation for your recruiting, development, and business planning.
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Org Structure Planning (50%)
D. Brown Management
August 25, 2024
Planning for a 50% organizational structure is valuable both for contingency planning and for highlighting growth opportunities. Constraints breed creativity, and there is no greater constraint than talent.
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Aligning Projects and People
D. Brown Management
May 13, 2024
The business of building is largely about aligning projects and people. Contractors exist to build projects. People design and build the projects. The management team, structure, and systems bring it all together.
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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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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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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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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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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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