All businesses start with administrative communication. Creating a plan, proposals, going over documents, and presenting a formal plan to the entire team If you’re not functioning in a way that is done by design or universal laws of flow, then you’ll be in a constant state of default and confusion. One of the biggest challenges I’m constantly seeing is businesses, contractors, and subcontractors that are constantly trying to cheat the system from every angle. They are trying to defeat written orders and the structure of the industry to try to save a dollar. The result is usually they end up spending 10x more in the long term to save only 1x now. They end up having to repeat the work multiple times.

The responsibility to prevent this lies with the management. The more management tries to cut corners on their job, the more they influence the rest of the company to cut corners to meet standards. The next thing you know, the entire company has lost its integrity. When a company has a strong structure, management, integrity, and accountability, companies run more effectively and efficiently.

The most important reason to have structure is that that is the only way you can increase productivity and profitability. Customer relations and future relationships cannot be built by cutting corners, it’s by building strong foundations. Just like building a building, you can only grow when you have a strong foundation. With a strong foundation, you can train leaders, have more efficient employees, have the ability to raise and maintain standards, be able to handle bigger projects with higher risk, and afford to survive the pitfalls. Lawsuits are inevitable in this industry.

In order to grow the whole team must work together. You’ve got to get out of finding ways to cut corners and get into managing the recovery of your business. If the person running the company isn’t congruent with the World Class Mindset and they are focused on cutting corners then nobody in the company can grow. Idealistically, you’ll have a company functioning by design. The management sector would recognize that the importance of quality and assurance are superior to trying to do everything faster, cheaper in less time. If they focused on creating a better product, rather than creating the cheapest product possible, profitability would come as a side effect of the quality increase.