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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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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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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Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (The OODA Loop)
D. Brown Management
April 14, 2024
The OODA Loop is a decision-making framework originally developed for the military to make agility a competitive advantage. The focus on fast, localized decisions in rapidly changing environments aligns well with construction projects and businesses.
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Definition - Decision Rights
D. Brown Management
April 14, 2024
Decision Rights define the business decisions that need to be made, who is involved in making them, and how they will be made through processes, tools, and operating rhythms.
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Headcount, Management Structure, and Systems
D. Brown Management
March 23, 2024
Your management structure and systems must be able to support your forecasted 2-month peak headcount, including the ramp-up to that peak.
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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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Unicorns and the Growing Contractor
D. Brown Management
January 21, 2024
If you are having consistent difficulty finding the right person for a role, you may be looking for a unicorn. Requiring unicorns to grow is a bad plan. If you do find a unicorn, just ask them where the pot of gold is and forget about construction!
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