Planning and Preparing for Unknowns
D. Brown Management
March 18, 2020
When faced with many unknowns, it is important to plan and prepare for multiple scenarios while holding off on being decisive until the last responsible moment.
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Prepare Your Business - People
D. Brown Management
March 18, 2020
Your people are your business. This is especially true for contractors where nearly 100% of competitive differentiators are the experience of your people. Now we are faced with lots of unknowns and yet we must act decisively.
COVID-19 talent
Learn from the Wisdom in the Lessons of History
D. Brown Management
March 17, 2020
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” - Louis Pasteur ---------- How much time do you and your team spend exploring the broader context of our world?
We Are Americans
D. Brown Management
March 17, 2020
We are Americans. This is the first thing we must focus on as we lead through the many challenges we will face individually, as families, as businesses, and as communities coping with COVID-19 and the very likely financial fall-out that will follow.
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Prepare Your Business - Capital
D. Brown Management
March 17, 2020
In times of uncertainty, the best strategy is to do everything possible to preserve your capital and ensure credit will be available as needed.
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Using a Vision to Create Desire and Context for Tasks
D. Brown Management
March 16, 2020
There is a whole lot of work involved in building projects and building a construction company. It is easy to get mired down in endless to-do lists, processes, and problems. The thing that holds this all together and accelerates performance is the vision.
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Coachability and Capability Matrix
D. Brown Management
March 5, 2020
Sustainable growth over time in your career and as a company has to do with being coachable and capable. Optimum growth occurs when we are stretching ourselves and others just beyond our current capabilities and then developing the needed capabilities.
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Words of Wisdom for Leading Growth
D. Brown Management
February 21, 2020
Develop a clear market strategy and set guiding principles that creates value for your customers and your business. Nurture and promote those on your team that take initiative to aggressively execute strategy while relentlessly following up on details.
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Balancing Modes of Prioritization and Career Progression
D. Brown Management
February 18, 2020
If your workload prioritization seems impossible, try looking at it from a higher-level of prioritization. We all must prioritize in life and at work. Our outcomes are heavily impacted by how effective we are at prioritization.
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Be Specific About Problems
D. Brown Management
February 12, 2020
The business of construction is filled with constant problems. It’s not that great contractors don’t have problems, it's that great contractors have learned how to troubleshoot first, which allows them to learn from their problems faster.
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