Negotiating Tidbits: A Contractor’s Perspective
In the business of engineering and construction, we face numerous negotiating settings.
People
Creating A Knowledge Sharing Culture
Knowledge management (KM) focuses on how an organization identifies, creates, captures, acquires, shares, and leverages knowledge. Systematic processes support these activities, also enabling replication of successes.
On-Boarding a New CEO in Engineering and Construction Business
This is a case study of my role as a consultant/executive coach/mentor. The task was to on-board a new CEO.
“Baker’s Dozen”— Keys to Jumpstart Your Career
Key Points: Learning, Relationships, Communication, People, Networking, Opportunity
Just Do It — and Other Steps to Success
If you don’t believe in yourself and your ideas, who will?
Change is the Only Constant and Other Life Lessons
Life has a way of happening when we are busy planning for other outcomes.
Functional Organizations in Large Complex Programs
Large corporate organizations typically employ some form of matrix organization to share resources and ensure a consistent approach in key areas across the organization.
Cross-Cultural Factors
This Executive Insight looks at some cross-cultural factors that are encountered in the conduct of business and are written from a US perspective.
Considerations in Cross-Cultural Negotiations
This topic is broad, crossing national, regional, and various subcultures. This Executive Insight is far from exhaustive.
Human Factors in Large Complex Projects
Human factors are important on all projects. On large complex projects, however, the network of interactions grows in nonlinear ways.
Listening
One of the keys to strong client relationships, starting with marketing and selling and continuing throughout the project life cycle, is having a clear understanding of the client's wants and needs.
Empathy in a Remote Working World
The current COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a reinvention of business, creating a home-based reality. The social contract with employees is being modified as well as the economic model of business.
A Failure of Logic
This Executive Insight looks at the failure of logic, or maybe better said, logical fallacies, in the conception, management, and execution of many large complex projects.
Dirty Dozen
This Executive Insight will show the suite of human factors to be considered in large complex projects is much broader, takes on increased importance, and requires even more attention because of project size and complexity.
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