Book Title: Construction Business Management: A Guide to Contracting for Business Success
Author: Nick B. Ganaway
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2006
Although most construction firms are formed by competent and ambitious construction executives, project managers and builders, only a handful of the firms remain in business after four years.
This is because although most of these entrepreneurs are experienced in their fields of operation, they are not prepared to take on the full range of responsibilities forced on them in managing the business of construction in its entirety.
Construction Business Management: A Guide to Contracting for Business Success describes in detail what the business side of the construction equation requires of the construction business owner.
Contractors who quickly learn these requirements can identify and avoid or manage around the pitfalls that cause the high failure rate in the construction sector and put their firms on a level playing field with the best managed companies in the industry.
The contractor doing Sh50 million or Sh6 billion or more in annual sales or the entrepreneur who is just starting up can use these tried and proven material in this book to build a business that is profitable, enjoyable and enduring. The book is available at Amazon.com.
