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Business Management

Practical business management guidance for construction owners—operations, leadership, growth strategy and the day-to-day decisions that run a company.

  • Get Your Construction Business Back to the BASICS

    Six components of a successful business.
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  • Better Next Year No. 4: Fine-Tune Project Management Reports

    It’s a common problem shared among busy construction owners’working hard to manage all the details of their jobs leaves little time to tell which projects are working.
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  • What Makes the Construction Industry Appealing

    The variety of challenges in construction provides consistently rewarding experiences.
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  • Succession Planning and Tax-Advantaged Estate Planning for Contractors

    Steps to plan a future for your business after your retirement.
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  • I Wonder Who’s Gonna Show Up Today?

    Jayme Dill Broudy answers your construction business management questions.
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  • The Business Owner Toolbox Part 6: Fire Your Dad?

    Editor’s Note:  This is the sixth in our 2007 series of The Business Owner Toolbox written by our regular columnist, George Hedley.  Each article is written to provide you with practical, immediately applicable business management tools to assist you on your path to building a successful, growing business. To read the previous article, click here. To read the next article in the series, click here. I grew up in a home where my dad was an entrepreneur. He owned, managed, built and developed mobile home parks. He worked hard, lots of hours and often from his home office. After graduating from high school, I attended the University of Southern California (Go Trojans!) so I could play on the water polo team and get a civil-structural…
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  • Strategies for Improving Your Return on Training

    Successful businesses are dynamic.
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  • How Can I Fix Problems Once for My Construction Company

    Make systematic improvements to eliminate repetitive changes.
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  • Slow and Steady Wins the Race

    Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in our 2009 series, “Earn More, Work Less.” To read the previous article, click here. I recently read a newspaper article that identified the challenges facing a construction company trying to do business in today’s economy. In California, total unemployment is predicted to reach 12 percent or more in 2010. Construction unemployment is almost double that sad statistic. But the monthly statistics that astounded me were construction permits issued in the state. Commercial construction permit dollar volume was down 66 percent, and residential permit dollar volume was down 75 percent since the peak years of 2005 through 2007. This past year, I have repeatedly heard similarly shocking sales figures from national companies that supply construction materials such as cement,…
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  • Compete on Price to Get Construction Work by Reducing Overhead

    Ways to reduce your overhead and to lower your prices and win more work.
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  • Management Basics #5: Change

    Fred Ode helps you improve your construction business management skills.
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  • July 2007: Consultant’s Corner

    Jayme Dill Broudy answers your questions.
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