Jack Welch - Short and Long Term

We exist to help contractors build stronger businesses for the next generation.

D. Brown Management

May 10, 2018 2 minute read

That is not only our mission at D. Brown Management but should also be the mission of EVERY leader within a construction business.

Quote: You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. Jack Welch Retired Chairman and CEO of GE

Leaders must be focused on balanced execution across both functional areas and time horizons for truly sustainable growth.

Developing Your Talent
Winning Quality Work
Building Quality Projects
Keeping Score
Integrating Your Supply Chain
Leveraging Technology

Within each of those functional areas leaders must balance out short-term execution while investing in their long-term vision. This balancing act is extremely difficult when management teams are all stretched thin.

Jack & Suzy Welch do a great job of describing this balance in Winning and The Real Life MBA.

An experienced but unbiased 3rd party can be invaluable in helping your team remain balanced in their thinking and execution.

The Journey (Length, Complexity, Ambiguity, and Guardrails)

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.

Talent

Our Principles for Creating Value in Careers, Projects, and Contracting

“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The person who grasps principles can successfully select their own methods. The person who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” - Harrington Emmerson

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Jeff Bezos - All Overnight Success Takes About 10 Years

Do you have the stamina for success? Being successful in anything worth having--relationships, careers, companies, health, and life in general--requires the daily discipline of working deliberately toward your goals.

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