Ep.320 - Working for a Failing Superintendent!

Many superintendents do not know what they are doing, and that is a reality you have to work around. If you are a foreman or trade partner waiting for an incompetent superintendent to map out your destiny on site, you cannot wait. Here is the secret nobody tells you. You are in trouble either way. Whether you blindly follow stupid requests or do it the right way, you are going to get in trouble. So why not be in trouble and make money? Create your own schedule, protect your trade flow, plan it first, build it right, and finish as you go. If you do not have a plan, you will find yourself as part of somebody else's plan. And most of the time, the superintendent does not have a plan.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The powerful principle: expect nothing, appreciate everything, do the right thing (versus expect everything, appreciate nothing, respond as victim)
• Why you are in trouble either way, so you might as well do the right thing and make money
• How to create your own schedule and protect trade flow when the superintendent has no plan
• Why most owner's reps and uneducated superintendents give terrible advice that destroys flow
• The James Madison lesson: if you do not have a plan, be prepared to be part of somebody else's plan

You are in trouble either way. Do the right thing. Take care of the contractor. Make money. Protect your trade flow.

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