http://www.myriskcontrol.com/blog/2008/07/construction-business-management/ The MyRiskControl Blog is the Construction Industries source for Enterprise Risk Management developments. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:18:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.myriskcontrol.com/blog/2008/07/construction-business-management/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Dave Druml Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:03:21 +0000 http://www.myriskcontrol.com/blog/?p=21#comment-15 It really is amazing to me how complex simple matters can become. The main reason why the construction industry has such a high failure rate is because work moves so fast and the market is so competitive, that there is no time to work on company improvements, right? Wrong! Contractors choose not to make the time. With the high construction failure rate, it is clearly better for a contractor to take time to improve now. I think the "there's always tomorrow" attitude leads to the end of tomorrows for many companies. But I don't call it procrastination. I call it lack of discipline. For most contractors, it simply isn't enjoyable to take on the work of improving their company when it takes away time from building great projects. That feeling of pride and accomplishment that comes with overcoming the challenges of building a job just gets in your blood. Improving the company simply doesn't compare. It just takes discipline. It really is amazing to me how complex simple matters can become. The main reason why the construction industry has such a high failure rate is because work moves so fast and the market is so competitive, that there is no time to work on company improvements, right? Wrong! Contractors choose not to make the time. With the high construction failure rate, it is clearly better for a contractor to take time to improve now. I think the “there’s always tomorrow” attitude leads to the end of tomorrows for many companies. But I don’t call it procrastination. I call it lack of discipline. For most contractors, it simply isn’t enjoyable to take on the work of improving their company when it takes away time from building great projects. That feeling of pride and accomplishment that comes with overcoming the challenges of building a job just gets in your blood. Improving the company simply doesn’t compare. It just takes discipline.

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