If your jobs consistently feel less profitable than your numbers suggest, the answer probably isn’t in the field. It’s in how your costs are being tracked—or not tracked. Indirect costs are one of the most misunderstood areas of construction accounting. When they’re not properly identified, allocated, and reported, they create a distorted picture of job…
Not long ago I was working with a GC bidding on an $80 million multifamily project. Blood, sweat, and tears. Months of work. Their best people on the proposal. I asked them one question. “Who is the final decision maker?” They looked at each other. Then back at me. “I don’t know.” Eighty million dollars…
You know what high performance looks like on the surface. The website photos. The company page. Everyone smiling, hard hats on, thumbs up. And then you get underneath the surface. People aren’t pulling in the same direction. Communication is broken. Someone on your team has been in the wrong seat for two years, and you’ve…
Jack Dorsey Just Cut His Company Nearly in Half—Because AI Changed the Math. Jack Dorsey—founder of Twitter, founder of Block—posted something on X this week that should make every CEO, tech or not, sit up straight. Block is cutting its organization nearly in half. From over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. More than 4,000…
How to Run Effective Problem-Solving Meetings That Get Results in 25 Minutes I’ve been running problem-solving sessions with construction companies for over two decades. I thought I understood why they worked. Last week, a guy named James taught me something I’d never considered. We were in a session with eight construction leaders — different divisions,…
How often do you stay silent when you know you should speak up? The project is slipping and no one’s naming it. Costs are running over and the conversation keeps getting postponed. There’s a safety issue on the jobsite that everyone sees but no one escalates. The wrong PM is in a key seat and…