Your Top Priority During A Recession? Protect Your Golden Goose at All Costs

Creating a plan for an inevitable recession will help save your business.

This article was originally featured in the January/February 2020 issue of Construction Accounting and Taxation

As a construction business owner, your company is your golden goose, your pride and joy. To grow and nurture it, you worked countless hours and sacrificed time with family and friends —not to mention forfeited sleep. When you see the axe of a recession swinging down on your goose’s head, you will do anything to make sure it survives. As discussed in Rock the Recession: How Successful Leaders Prepare for, Thrive During, and Create Wealth After Downturns, keeping your golden goose alive in a downturn is your top priority.

Although your company’ s survival is number one on your list, it does not make tough decisions, like laying off valued employees, any less difficult. The hard truth is that you simply are not going to survive without a lot of pain unless you have a written plan in place to deal with hard choices. We call that plan an “emergency brake,” a tiered system of cuts to be activated when certain predetermined metrics are reached.

In this article, we will explain why you need these tiers in place before a recession strikes and how to define them for your construction business so you can weather the downturn with minimal damage and pain.

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