Do you remember a time when management pointed out that your project was behind and the budget was busted?
I do, I remember a ton of monthly meetings where all I had to look forward to was a bunch of grey hairs letting me know how much I sucked. That was the core motivation behind my...
What does Virtual SQI Look like? Well maybe a more appropriate question is what are the less than sexy parts of making work better?
Its alot like having a big ole party. You spend a bunch of time organizing the thing, anticipate the fun and the memories youre gonna share, but you still...
On last weeks blog we talked about the improvement strategy in Sweat Equity Improvement and leveraging our influence to serve others. You got a heavy dose of the social benefits in approaching continuous improvement in this way and how relationships on the jobsite are effected. And yes...
What is the point of Lean Construction? Ask any number of continuous improvement freak in the construction industry and you will get as many answers. If you ask me, my answer has changed several times since I was introduced to Lean Construction back in 2000. Today it is 100% about making work...
I was introduced to Lean Construction back in 2000. I had no idea what this "Lean" thing was and I believed the company I was working for invented it. The tool I was learning was The Last Planner System® and just like I believed the company had invented Lean, I also believed The Last Planner...
Personal Branding is a new idea in Jesse-land. Before I started my business I had zero awareness and even less appreciation for this idea of "branding" Which doesnt really make sense since the Learnings and Missteps Podcast is nearly 4 years old.
Branding and marketing used to fit into a...
Story #20 is another tear jerker for me and maybe contains the lesson that is most impactful. The lesson is "tell people about the greatness you see in them" because we are all blind to our own greatness. You may get stuck on the word greatness, dont worry I did too. The way I reconcile this...
Story 19 still pulls all kind of emotion out of me, my eyes teared up while I was preparing for this blog entry. If you dont believe me you can hear my voice crack in the Audio Book.
I think its because of the intensity in the experience I had way back then. I had a goal to run a sub 4...
Story #18 is about the unexpected impact we can have on people. And the strange rubber band-ish outcomes that impact brings. The lessons I learned were:
- Getting past insecurities
- restrictive conditions in our life
- how making hard life decisions get you on the path to Becoming the...
Story 17 is one of those lessons that stings every time I think about it. Before I get into it, I want to give you the lessons I got from this experience:
- Honoring and valuing ourselves signals to others how they should honor and value us
- Playing small is a form of self betrayal
Back to...
Story 16 is a heavy story, word is you can hear my voice crack on the audio book. The details of Story 16 stirs up a mix of emotions for me. I think the emotions come from discovering the difference between sympathy and empathy which is one huge lesson, the other lesson in Story 16...
This entry is part 2 of Story 15 which is a story about self advocacy. One of the lessons in the story is not letting life rub the courage out of you.
Think back to when you were in elementary school and had a clear understanding of right & wrong. Life was simple, until we...
