Ep.255 - How to Survive as a Trade Partner with a Bad General Contractor!

Jason addresses trade partners on how to survive working with bad general contractors. A trade partner VP told Jason to show him a superintendent who follows the principles in Elevating Construction Superintendents because they would bid on those projects. Main focus is controlling the flow and flowing within while holding GCs accountable. Jason argues CPM scheduling hides information which benefits owners and GCs at the expense of trades.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Control flow and flow within: Hold your GC accountable, always do right thing regardless of what people ask
• Don't go out of flow blindly: Have conversations before trade stacking or doing unsafe things GC requests
• Make flow visible: Don't let your flow be hidden, needs to be in everyone's face with data and dates
• CPM hides information: Benefits owner and GC when data is hidden, chaotic schedules shove risk onto trades
• Training is critical: Construction loses productivity every year, need 10 times more training than now
• Challenge: Measure of success is everybody wins, if you burned out contractor to finish you failed

In United States nobody is incentivized to do the right thing, hidden information benefits owner and GC at expense of trades.

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