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Marxist materialism gave us the walls of brutalist housing blocks. The same ideology now sells us 'it's just a job.' Both strip the human being down to a unit. A job pays the rent. A vocation pays the soul.
I have personally observed, coached, and post-mortemed hiring inside more than 130 construction companies over the past fifteen years. I have watched thousands of interviews, tracked hundreds of hires through their full arc, and sat across the table from leaders who range from brilliant to dangerously unaware. I have seen the same patterns destroy the […]
Interview groupthink silently ruins hiring decisions. Learn why belief intensity is a poor signal, why groupthink teams leave most of the job description unexamined, and how the Ambassador Interview Method restores discipline.
Your hiring process produces the appearance of rigor. Multiple interviews. Structured debriefs. Written assessments. A decision made by a committee.
What it doesn't produce, reliably, is accuracy.
A unicorn is a professional with the maturity, wisdom, and emotional intelligence to handle messy situations. They have the cognitive intelligence and humility to adapt to whatever the moment demands. They get a positive outcome. More importantly, they make it look easy.
Wanting a project manager who is obsessed with the smallest details but also works at a blistering pace, a superintendent who is deeply skeptical of risk but instantly trusting of new partners, or someone who thrives in quiet isolation for deep work but acts as the ultimate extrovert during client meetings.
You found a good candidate and are ready to hire. How do you make sure you aren’t missing something that will cost you in the long run!? There’s always something lurking, isn’t there? Most bad hires do not happen because the person and the company do not align at some level, but the challenge is […]
You would think the best construction companies in the world have thick binders of written standards. The truth is, most do not. How do I know? I’ve seen inside hundreds of what are considered and proport themselves to be the best in the business. Most high-end builders simply rely on their people to figure it […]
Hiring is the most expensive risk in construction. Yet most leaders treat the interview like a casual chat or a gut check. Picture a project manager rushing into the trailer, phone ringing in one hand, grabbing a warm resume off the printer with the other. They sit down, look at the candidate, and wing it. […]
There are two types of effort at work. The first is Mandatory Effort. This is the baseline. It is showing up on time, wearing the right PPE, and doing exactly what is written in the job description. You can buy this effort with a paycheck. You can enforce it with management. You can threaten a […]
