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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Nick discusses challenges faced on a construction project and solutions implemented. He talks about issues with site work, underground plumbing, framing, engineering details, and coordinating trades to complete windows and door installations.
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0:00.0 | If you want to take one thing from this podcast today, take that as a tip. |
0:03.5 | Like when there's enough for them to see, do pre-walks, get guys on site so they can |
0:09.0 | understand what you're giving them, but still, you know, time to go before they get on site. |
0:14.0 | I am driving a white |
0:20.0 | I am driving a white oak. This is Friday afternoon. And I was going to hop on here and just talk a little bit about some of the challenges I face maybe this week or even in the past. |
0:37.6 | I actually don't have a plan on this conversation. |
0:39.4 | I just know what I want to target here and we'll see where this goes. |
0:44.6 | But my intent is to just talk about mistakes or challenges |
0:49.2 | and how I dealt with them. |
0:50.9 | I think that even amongst my team, my peers, like that's |
0:54.8 | where people get stuck. There's a great saying, you know, the right decision, I mean the best |
0:59.7 | decision is the right decision, the second best decision is the wrong decision and the worst |
1:04.6 | decision you can make is no decision because you make zero progress whether it's |
1:09.6 | right or wrong and I want to elaborate on that because I think when you make the wrong decision, |
1:16.0 | there's a pretty good chance that it will be okay, meaning you could probably live with that decision. |
1:22.0 | If it's so wrong that it needs... meaning you could probably live with that decision. |
1:22.8 | If it's so wrong that it needs to completely be undone |
1:27.0 | or you know or ripped out and redone, |
1:30.2 | that's where you have to question, |
1:32.3 | you know, maybe your own or that person's ability, like, |
1:35.6 | why did you make such a wrong decision that even, you know, did you not make an educated decision? Or why weren't you educated enough to make a decision that you know is quote unquote passable? |
1:49.0 | So different different conversation for a different day. |
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