Earlier in my career, I wish I knew there could be a strategy to the flow of our meetings. In a semi-recent Elevate Construction podcast, Organize Your Meetings, Jason Schroeder talked about the flow of information through the series of project meetings. As we integrate quality tasks within our daily work, we could get a […]
Category: Quick Thoughts
Why Quality Programs Exist (and my conversation about it with ChatGPT)
I wrote a few weeks ago in the newsletter about how they achieved quality constructing the Empire State Building without the formal quality programs we have today. I’ve been trying to dig deeper on this topic for three years with no luck. (If anyone has any solid resources, please contact me.) Given my research struggles, […]
The Empire State Building and Formal Quality Programs
I recently finished How Big Things Get Done (book notes forthcoming). The Empire State Building was a case study in the book, referencing another book, Building the Empire State, a collection of notes from the building’s construction. I bought it, looking for specific tactics on how they ensured quality. I wanted to understand how they did it without the […]
We Have 4,000 Weeks to Live
We have 4,000 weeks to live. That’s one of the discussion points in a podcast with Oliver Burkeman, author of 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Oliver’s book outlines philosophically how we spend those 4,000 weeks. I wish I had this insight when I started in construction as a field engineer. On the average project, we […]