You don't need a podcast to do this. Record yourself talking through an idea. A presentation. A hard conversation. Then watch it back. That's it. That's the exercise. Growth isn't pass/fail, it's bookends. Look back a year later and see how far you've come Boost Your Leadership game with The…
It's Monday. The day most goals get their first real test and lose. It's not the bad morning. It's the story you tell yourself right after you fail to take action as planned. Most people never even notice they're continually trapped in pass fail thinking. Listen to this week's full…
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AJ Waters wanted to design stadiums. Instead, he ended up rebuilding the operating system for one of the largest construction companies in the world and learning, the hard way, why so many digital transformations quietly collapse in the field. In this episode, AJ takes Jesse inside the messy reality of…
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The Jetsons at home. The Flintstones at work. That gap is exactly what pushed AJ Waters to change how an entire construction company used technology. Full episode (dropping Thursday) follows his journey — and what it taught him about leading change in an industry that doesn't love change. Subscribe so…
Most construction tech gets built top-down — for GCs and management — while the people actually installing on the job site get an afterthought version. Here's why that gap keeps showing up in the tools built for our industry. Boost Your Leadership game with The Construction Leadership Lab: https://www.depthbuilder.com/construction-leadership-lab Download…
"I'm supposed to be installing pipe, not feeding data to somebody." Jesse gets real about why so much construction tech misses the mark for the people actually doing the work in the field. Built for GCs, sold to the top — but what about the guy on the ground whose…
You're not for everyone and that's actually the point. Trying to be liked by everybody usually means you're not being real with anybody. This clip is a reminder that autthenticity, humility, and knowing when to sepak (and when not to ) is a journey, not a destination and it's one…
There's a version of "authentic" that's just an excuse to be obnoxious. Amy Houk isn't that version. Amy is the president of National Lien Services and RSC Preliminary Lien Services and joins Jesse to talk about turning 50 and how that moment changed everything: she stopped caring about most things…
There's a version of "authentic" that's just an excuse to be obnoxious. Amy Cordero-Houk isn't that version. In this episode of Learnings & Missteps, Jesse sits down with Amy — president of National Lien Services and RSC Preliminary Lien Services — for a conversation that moves from personal growth to…
The version that gets universally liked usually takes a lot of energy to maintain. Overcompensating. Posturing. Performing. Managing every angle of how you come across. It works, in the sense that people like what they see. But it's not real, and it's not sustainable. And underneath it is a quiet…
Leadership is simpler than people make it. Two questions: Do you have followers? Do you have a direction? That's it. Everything else is layers on top. Full conversation with Amy Houk drops this Thursday on Learnings & Missteps. Boost Your Leadership game with The Construction Leadership Lab: https://www.depthbuilder.com/construction-leadership-lab Download your…
Authenticity isn't a personality trait you perform. It's what's left when you stop managing how people perceive you. Full conversation with Amy Houk drops Thursday on Learnings & Missteps. Get the Time Management System that makes people dangerously effective: https://www.depthbuilder.com/time-management-webinar-sign-up-page Download your free copy of Becoming the Promise You are…
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Feedback is optional. Performance isn't. Most managers default to soft, vague feedback — the "poo-poo sandwich" of compliment, critique, compliment — because it feels kinder. But feedback is suggestive by nature, appropriate for social settings or volunteer environments where the stakes are low. Performance conversations are different. They require clarity,…
Feedback is optional. Performance isn't. Most managers default to soft, vague feedback, the "poo-poo sandwich" of compliment, critique, compliment, because it feels safe. But feedback is suggestive by nature, appropriate for social settings or volunteer environments where the stakes are low. Performance conversations are different. They require clarity, accountability, and…
The feedback sandwich is popular because it's nice and easy. Compliment. Critique. Compliment. That's the formula most leaders are taught. It feels safe and kind. But here's why the feedback usually fails; people do the math. Two good comments, one bad one? That's a win. The critical feedback gets buried…
Performance conversations never feel good — not even after hundreds of them. Out of hundreds of performance conversations, only 2 ever turned into real conflict for Jesse. The rest? People took it and came back ready to change. The nervousness never goes away. But the outcomes are almost never as…
Surrender isn't quitting. It's letting go of control you never actually had. There's a difference between fighting the condition life throws at you and accepting them so you can actually move forward. One is exhausting. The other is freedom. Get the Time Management System that makes people dangerously effective: https://www.depthbuilder.com/time-management-webinar-sign-up-page…
Bradley Henderson wasn't trying to get better. He was trying to look good for a judge. But a picnic table, a journal, and three strangers in their first week of sobriety changed the plan. Catch the full episode for more. Get the Time Management System that makes people dangerously effective:…
Bradley Henderson built a company that bridges the field-office gap in construction, but the story of how he got there is the one worth hearing. Plumb Line Operations founder and field worker advocate Bradley Henderson joins Jesse to talk about the personal cost of traveling construction work, what addiction and…
Bradley Henderson built a company that bridges the field-office gap in construction, but the story of how he got there is the one worth hearing. Plumb Line Operations founder and field worker advocate Bradley Henderson joins Jesse to talk about the personal cost of traveling construction work, what addiction and…
Companies hiring guys with a past can unlock tax credits, insurance incentives, and federal programs they don't even know exist. But none of it works without one thing: structure. Catch this week's newest Learning's and Missteps episode dropping Thursday. Get the Time Management System that makes people dangerously effective: https://www.depthbuilder.com/time-management-webinar-sign-up-page…
