by Peter W | Jul 28, 2025 | Business Coaching, Construction Industry, Industry Opinion, Innovation, Management Consulting, Project Management
It feels like there’s a lot of change happening currently. The concern, is that I hear of businesses abandoning strategy because of the pace of change. This would be a mistake and why? Engineering and construction is a great industry in my opinion. Because the...
by Peter W | Dec 9, 2024 | Business Coaching, Construction Industry, Industry Opinion, Management Consulting, Project Management
Have you noticed that we as human beings, when faced with a very large problem, tend to focus on the details? Have you for instance observed, when you are involved in a group problem solving activity, where the conversation normally goes? Down a rabbit hole – if the...
by Peter W | Oct 23, 2024 | Bid Management, Business Coaching, Construction Industry, Industry Opinion, Management Consulting, Project Management
The most difficult question I face in my work in Leadership in the engineering and construction industry shows up with integrity. By this I mean if I am in integrity (I do what I say I will do, on time and to the standard we have agreed) what do I do if the system I...
by Peter W | Sep 30, 2024 | Business Coaching, Industry Opinion, Innovation, Management Consulting
I was recently given a book by a colleague of mine with a very impressive gift for selecting books. It’s titled “Surrounded by Idiots” by a Swedish guy Thomas Erikson and is one in a series of four books he has written on organisational psychology. The title is an eye...
by Peter W | Aug 18, 2024 | Bid Management, Business Coaching, Construction Industry, Industry Opinion, Infrastructure Construction, Management Consulting, Project Management
The reference to the Steel Ceiling in the title of my book “The Steel Ceiling: Achieving Sustainable Growth in Engineering and Construction (Wiley 2023)” is to a behavioural metaphor. It refers to the “feast or famine” behaviour small and medium businesses in the...
by Peter W | Jun 29, 2024 | Business Coaching, Management Consulting
What is a Vaues-led business? It might be easier to start with what a values driven business is not: A business with a series of “hard” KPIs used to monitor performance (many of which tend to be financially based). Tight financial control is an extremely important...
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