Your team could agree in 30 minutes on how to tackle a problem you’ve been arguing about for years. I’ve watched my clients do exactly that. For over 20 years, I’ve used a specific meeting structure to help construction leaders reach agreement and taught them to use it themselves. Before you decide you suck at…
You’re a contractor. You’re busy. You’re skeptical of the AI hype. Every consultant on LinkedIn is telling you that if you don’t embrace AI right now, you’re going to get left behind. Tuning that out is a smart move. Here’s the catch. While you’re waiting for the noise to die down, a few of your…
From civil engineering to superintendent: leading a jobsite without trade experience 🎧 Listen to Episode 365 This article is a lightly edited transcript of my conversation with Erin Saiki on the Construction Genius podcast. I cleaned it up for reading, but the words are hers. To hear the whole thing, listen to Episode 365. Erin Saiki runs…
The Construction Genius Podcast · Episode 374 ▶ Listen to Episode 374 Camilo Garcia and Mike Humphrey co-lead DPR Construction’s Northeast region. Mike has been with DPR for 33 years and Camilo for 23, and together they run the region’s offices and teams. In this conversation, they trace the cycles DPR has been through, from…
The Construction Genius Podcast · Episode 351 ▶ Listen to Episode 351 Mark Whitson started at DPR Construction with his tools in his hands and leads the company as president today. That path tells you most of what you need to know about how DPR builds people. I sat down with Mark on the Construction…
You know the person I’m talking about. The estimator who hits 95% accuracy in twenty minutes while everyone else takes three hours and lands at 60%. The veteran super who walks a site and immediately spots the safety issue nobody else sees. The senior PM who can smell a bad subcontractor on the first phone…