Stop Taking Shortcuts: The Shortcut Delusion | Ep. 466
Why does your construction business feel more chaotic the bigger it gets? In this episode, Todd Dawalt breaks down the shortcut delusion and...
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20 of 468 episodesHow You're Accidentally Making Your Team Resist Change | Ep. 465
Your team keeps resisting new processes and software, and the way you roll out change might be the reason. Dr. Anna Hunter, Director of Lear...
You're Solving the Wrong Problems in Your Construction Business | Ep. 464
In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, Todd Dawalt explains why construction business owners keep solving the wrong probl...
Stop Putting Out Fires by Building a Real Pre-Construction Process | Ep. 463
On this rerun episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, custom home builder Eric Brownson sits down with our Director of Customer Su...
Why Generic Business Coaching Never Works for Your Construction Company | Ep. 462
Kris Miller runs a commercial, multifamily, and residential construction company in Denver, and he is on his way to cutting his workweek fro...
How to Turn Customer & Employee Excuses Into Action | Ep. 461
Every construction business owner hears the same objections: now isn't a good time, this will take too long, and it's too big to tackle. In...
Why Starting Projects Too Soon Is Killing Your Profit | Ep. 460
Todd Dawalt explains why starting construction projects before they're fully ready creates "dead days," the hidden overhead that bleeds prof...
How to Design Your Construction Business for Growth, Profit, and Freedom with Tom Raisanen | Ep. 459
Designing a construction business with the right systems and processes from day one is how you build for lasting profit and freedom. New Ham...
What To Do When Your Construction Business Finally Runs Without You | Ep. 458
You systematized your construction business and now it runs without you, so what do you actually do next? Todd Dawalt and CEO Alliance coach...
The Skywalk Collapse & The 5 Decision Questions Every Construction Leader Must Train Their Team On | Ep. 457
The 1981 Kansas City Hyatt skywalk collapse came down to one unchecked decision, and it holds a hard lesson for every construction business...
How To Hold Employees Accountable: The Big 5 System | Ep. 456
Todd Dawalt breaks down how to hold employees accountable in your construction business using the Big 5 Accountability System. It's a simple...
How Builder CEOs Get Sh*t Done (Without More Willpower or Fixing Your ADHD Brain) | Ep. 455
If you stay busy all day but the work that actually grows your construction business keeps getting pushed to tomorrow, the problem probably...
How Cody Scaled His Custom Home Business to Increase Profit and Win Back His Life | Ep. 454
Custom home builder Cody Reimer went from a burned-out two-man crew to running a 12-person company that operates without him in the day-to-d...
Why Waffle House Is More Systematized Than Your Construction Business | Ep. 453
If you're a contractor working 60 to 80-hour weeks and still putting out fires, here's an uncomfortable truth: Waffle House is probably more...
The 5-Step Hire Right System: How Construction Business Owners Can Hire Better with Justin Landry | Ep. 452
EPISODE 452: Hiring for your construction business shouldn't feel like an emergency every time you do it. In this episode, Todd Dawalt sits...
Crossing the Rubicon & the Desperate Ground Principle for Builders | Ep. 451
The year is half over. Are you halfway to your goals, or halfway to another year of almosts? In this episode, Todd DeWalt breaks down why so...
AI Is Lying, Customers Aren't: Radical Transparency and Culture-Building with Eric Fortenberry | Ep. 450
EPISODE 450: Why are you still stuck in the middle of everything, even with the best tools, a solid team, and steady projects coming in? In...
The Hidden Design Shift That Unlocks Growth, Profit, and Free Time in Your Construction Business | Ep. 449
EPISODE 449: Can you grow your construction business, pay yourself real profit, and still work a normal 40 to 50 hour week? Most constructio...
The One Question That Finally Gets Your Clients To Follow Your Process | Ep. 448
EPISODE 448: Got construction clients who miss selection deadlines, go around your communication process, then blame you when the schedule s...
Short-Staffed or Just Disorganized? 5 Tests Before You Hire | Ep. 447
EPISODE 447: Before you hire your next superintendent, project manager, or estimator, you need to know whether you have a capacity problem o...