What Are You Optimizing For?
D. Brown Management
January 3, 2025
Prioritizing is about sequencing. Optimizing is about balance. Both are defined by your values, strategies, and objectives. Both are constrained by your finite resources including talent and capital. Start by knowing what you are optimizing for.
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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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Succession and the 2024 Olympics as an Example
D. Brown Management
December 1, 2024
Succession in any job role should be looked at like the USA Team in the Mixed 4x400 Relay Race at the 2024 Olympics. This is especially true for ownership transitions for construction contractors. Learn more about this 4-step process.
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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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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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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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Internal Promotions and External Recruits (Target Ratios)
D. Brown Management
September 1, 2024
Having the right ratio of internal promotions and external recruits at different levels of the company is critical for growth and succession. Use these target ratios, rationale, and qualifiers to evaluate your Talent Value Stream (TVS).
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Conditional Love is Not Effective
D. Brown Management
September 1, 2024
Conditional love isn't effective in most situations, including parenting, careers, leadership, ownership, and life in general.
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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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