Building Business

Self-Taught MBA: The Project Premortem
A project management technique to help you learn from mistakes you haven’t made yet.
Self-Taught MBA: Stress Testing Your Business
A simple stress test for your business can motivate you to take defensive measures against a financial crisis.
Self-Taught MBA: The Morality of Code Enforcement
Reflections from Ecuador. It’s not just about money, your work as a builder carries as much responsibility for the life safety of your clients as a pilot for his passengers…
News on Housing Starts from Elliot F. Eisenberg, Ph.D
The bowtie economist says: The rest of 2016 will show no meaningful month-over-month gains.
Self-Taught MBA: Better Ballpark Estimates
The professional project manager’s "Beta Distribution" method of ballpark estimating represents your best defense against bidding too high or too low at the initial phases of a project.
Self-Taught MBA: The Triple Constraint
Project managers recognize three basic “constraints” on almost every project, including the project’s scope, schedule, and cost. I like to add two more, quality and risk.
Self-Taught MBA: Investments, Costs, and Expenses: What’s the difference?
Using financial terms the wrong way causes confusion that costs you money. Learn the real meaning of the three most common words used to describe financial transactions.
Interesting Index
Update from Elliot F. Eisenberg, the Bowtie Economist
Self-Taught MBA: Builder Uses His Business Expertise to Help Others
Bill Asdal turned a successful remolding company into a business school for other remodelers and even some business that have nothing to do with construction.
Self-Taught MBA: Drones for Homebuilders
Toying with the idea of a holiday drone purchase? I’ll give you a business reason to go ahead and buy one.

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