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Ep.1615 - Trades Following the System
Ep.1614 - Why Capital One Saved Our Construction Business
Ep.1613 - Why the Piecework System Fails
Ep.1612 - Safe, Psychologically Safe
Ep.1611 - Non-Direct Authority Positions
Ep.1610 - Advanced Work Packaging Done Right
Ep.1609 - Professional A-Holes in Construction
Ep.1608 - Are All of Your Core Values Operationalized?
Ep.1607 - Why We Focus on Entry-Level Talent
Ep.1606 - What Should We Actually Be Recording?
Ep.1605 - If A Trade Partner Won't Fill Out The Pull Plan Homework
Ep.1604 - The Pull Plan & The Reference Class
Ep.1603 - Eliminating Waste Is Not the Whole Story
Ep.1602 - The Five-and-Five and Ten Feet Away
Ep.1601 - There Is No "Out of Takt"
Ep.1600 - Focus on the Critical Factors
Ep.1599 - Which Lean Principle Should You Follow?
Ep.1598 - Managing a Spread Out Project: How to Keep Control
Ep.1597 - The Impact of Having the Wrong Trades
Ep.1596 - Where Field Leadership Should Be
Ep.1595 - Where Balance Comes From
Ep.1594 - Letting Lower-Level People Make Key Decisions
Ep.1593 - Stop Call Wait Is Not Waiting
Ep.1592 - We All Have a Pull in Us That Wants to Be Better
Ep.1591 - Trying To Get Better As A Leader
Ep.1590 - The 10 "C"s continued, Feat. Joe Doherty
Ep.1589 - Total Participation Requires Total Connection
Ep.1588 - Don't Combine or Copy Pull Plans
Ep.1587 - Staging on a Fresh Concrete Deck
Ep.1586 - Get Out of the Swing Radius
Ep.1585 - It's Only Your Way If It Works
Ep.1584 - Arrogant and Cocky PMs: The Project Killers
Ep.1583 - Making Bad Look Cool
Ep.1582 - How to Sequence Corridors and Level One
Ep.1581 - Visualizing Constraints on Your Takt Plan
Ep.1580 - The Truth About RFIs
Ep.1579 - The Path to Mastery
Ep.1578 - Choose Your Mentor Wisely
Ep.1577 - Grid and Layered Components in Takt
Ep.1576 - Stop Contending, Start Collaborating
Ep.1575 - Why Construction Contracts Are Broken
Ep.1574 - We Never Firefight
Ep.1573 - You Love Your People and That Loves the Client
Ep.1572 - Pull together
Ep.1571 - Forget about being an Expert - Become a Student of the Game
Ep.1570 - Written up For Sleeping
Ep.1569 - If You Don't Send Your Folks to Training
EEp.1568 - Having Schedulers Means We're Doing It Wrong
EEp.1567 - Through Email Is Defective
EEp.1566 - If Your'e Working Weekends, Something Is Broken
Ep.1565 - Getting Feedback from People Forced into a System
Ep.1564 - The 10 Cs, Feat. Joe Doherty
Ep.1563 - Anticipate Trade Arrival
Ep.1562 - Didn't You Call Them?
Ep.1561 - Lawyers & How They Help Us
Ep.1560 - Queuing
Ep.1559 - Concrete as a Geographical Area
Ep.1558 - Technology in Pre-construction, Feat. Aaron Kivett
Ep.1557 - The Biggest Leadership Mistake: Ignoring Problems
Ep.1556 - 10 Leadership Mistakes That Disrespect Your Team (And How to Fix Them)
Ep.1555 - Advanced Teaching through AI Images
Ep.1554 - Why Labor Counts Matter in Construction (Labor Tracking for Superintendents)
Ep.1553 - A Lecture to Civil Contractors
Ep.1552 - Takt Planning As Trains & Cars & Trucks.
Ep.1551 - Family Series - Cleaning the Backyard
Ep.1550 - Project Status Report
Ep.1549 - Reactors vs Preventors
Ep.1548 - Takt Doesn't Work = I Am Not Pre-plannning
Ep.1547 - Buffers Are NOT Shared Float
Ep.1546 - False Lore in Construction
Ep.1545 - Pace Buffer Usage with The Remaining Buf
Ep.1544 - Email is Only Fun for Delegators
Ep.1543 - Victims & Losers love CPM
Ep.1542 - Pushing is the Alternative to Good Think
Ep.1541 - The Schedule, Feat. Adam (Beanie) Bean
Ep.1540 - Project Changes, Feat. Adam (Beanie) Bean
Ep.1539 - How Takt Complies with Lean Core 3
Ep.1538 - Same Thing Helping More People, Not Higher
Ep.1537 - Standards Must not Slip
Ep.1536 - The Person Solving the Problem
Ep.1535 - Need Data when Opinions Gridlock
Ep.1534 - Likening Dumb Things to an Orchestra
Ep.1533 - Salty Eyes
Ep.1532 - How Takt Complies with Lean Core 2
Ep.1531 - Choosing Clients, Feat. Mark Story
Ep.1530 - How Takt Complies with Lean Core 1
Ep.1529 - 3S & 5S - Sort, Straighten, Sweep, Standardize, Sustain
Ep.1528 - Standards Must Not Slip
Ep.1527 - Organize Your People around Value Streams
Ep.1526 - Water Spiders in Construction
Ep.1525 - The Layout of the Space
Ep.1524 - Overproduction Triggers Instability
Ep.1523 - Holding Start Dates
Ep.1522 - Scaling in Construction, Feat. Mark Story
Ep.1521 - What Stability Looks Like
Ep.1520 - You Can't Improve Anything in Chaos
Ep.1519 - Iterations & Checks
Ep.1518 - A Reply to Nat M. Zorach
Ep.1517 - The Leader Drives Lean
Ep.1516 - 10X