Something Widely Believed on Job Sites That Just Isn’t True

The Myth I Keep Running Into A lot of people think the fastest worker on a crew is the most valuable one. I get why. Speed is easy to see. You watch someone move through a task quicker than everyone else and it looks like skill. I do not think that is true, and I […]

The generosity mistake that quietly kills teams (and what to do instead)

Generosity that costs you the mission I have given away too much. Too much time to people who weren’t ready to use it, too much rope to hires who needed a shorter leash, too much benefit of the doubt to plans that were already dead. For years I called this a strength. It isn’t. It’s […]