{"id":5090,"date":"2019-04-24T06:29:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2019-04-24T06:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:29:15","slug":"opinion-lack-of-talent-at-the-top-is-hurting-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/opinion-lack-of-talent-at-the-top-is-hurting-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Lack of talent at the top is hurting construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

We keep a keen-eye at the Enquirer<\/em> on appointments at major contractors and projects.<\/p>\n

And they reveal a not-so-merry-go-round of talent at the industry\u2019s biggest players.<\/p>\n

Of course most managers on the carousel do a decent job.<\/p>\n

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But it’s pretty hard to fall-off even if your performance leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n

The same old faces and CV entries crop-up regularly when new directors are unveiled.<\/p>\n

It means construction bosses are now like football managers.<\/p>\n

A lack of new entrants means a closed shop of candidates for vacant roles.<\/p>\n

Positions are often filled from a band of construction directors whose main selling point is that they\u2019ve done the job for a while – rather than how good they are at it.<\/p>\n

We hear a lot about site skills shortages.<\/p>\n

But the talent drought at the top of major companies is just as alarming.<\/p>\n

And those recruitment chickens have been coming home to roost recently.<\/p>\n

Some of construction\u2019s biggest names have suffered lately and the people in charge are surely a massive part of that.<\/p>\n

“Over-optimism” is the new blame buzz-phrase when it comes to contractors explaining mistakes on bidding and project delivery.<\/p>\n

But growing boardroom bonuses based on performance – real or just spreadsheet based – has seen the “over-optimism” culture spread from the top down.<\/p>\n

The industry needs a new generation of leaders with different ideas fit for different times.<\/p>\n

We still talk about changing the industry based on reports like Latham and Egan which were written before smart phones were invented.<\/p>\n

Construction needs to trust younger people in more senior roles to bring a fresh perspective on some deep-rooted problems.<\/p>\n

The old-guard isn\u2019t working too well so it\u2019s time for a change.<\/p>\n

from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GwGS8c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We keep a keen-eye at the Enquirer on appointments at major contractors and projects. And they reveal a not-so-merry-go-round of talent at the industry\u2019s biggest players. Of course most managers on the carousel do a decent job. But it’s pretty hard to fall-off even if your performance leaves a lot to be desired. The same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}