Tag: Jobsite Culture
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Crab Mentality: Why Workers Sometimes Pull Each Other Down
Question:Brian from North Carolina writes: “I’ve heard you talk about competition and machismo affecting behavior on Hispanic crews. Sometimes it feels like workers compete with each other instead of helping each other. Is that cultural—and how should a super handle it on the jobsite?” Answer: Brian, great question. Let me start with a conversation that caught…
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Building Trust Through Alchemy: What Construction Leaders Can Learn from Advertising’s Wild Card
By a wide margin, my favorite book this year is Alchemy by Rory Sutherland. He’s the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing agencies. The “alchemy” Sutherland refers to is in the subtitle: The Magic of Original Thinking in a World of Mind-Numbing Conformity. In his witty, sarcastic, and insightful style, Sutherland…
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