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Managing the Small Construction Business helps you overcome your share of business hassles by learning how 60 small contractors handled similar problems in their businesses. Most small-volume contractors come up through the trades. By the time they take the big step of hanging out a shingle as an independent contractor, most have mastered the technical aspects of their craft. That's how they achieved enough success to launch a business in the first place. Yet precious few have had sufficient experience on the business side to estimate accurately, negotiate a fair contract, keep adequate records, and deal with the myriad new relationships they must now master-with customers, employees, and subcontractors, not to mention architects, accountants, lawyers, and code officials. So it comes as no surprise that so many builders find their progress impeded by one management snag after another, and why so few last long enough to learn on the job the business skills they need to survive. Managing the Small Construction Business includes:
Managing the Small Construction Business is an attempt to guide the newcomer-as well as the small-volume builder who is growing his business-around many of these management pitfalls. Because no one person has all the answers, we've chosen selections from a variety of successful contractors-each writing about the aspects of the business he or she knows best. Includes: Book Published by: Journal of Light Construction ISBN: 1-928-580-00-9 328 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11 |
