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Created Miro board with complete outline for Takt planning journey. Start here, step by step instructions with links to podcasts, blogs, books, Amazon orders. McCarthy $480M project shaved three months with Takt. Board has red notes for future content Spencer and Jason will add.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Miro board outline: complete step by step Takt planning journey for individuals teams or companies
• McCarthy success story: superintendent read book, experimented, shaved 3 months, optimized concrete, predictability around commissioning
• Links embedded: podcasts blogs books Amazon landing pages all linked from images in board
• Red notes for future: blog posts and videos Spencer and Jason will add as they learn more
• Available to everyone: email Jason or check show notes for link, will post on LinkedIn next week

In three months this will be the most complete outline for how somebody could take their Takt journey whether individual team or company implementing on their job.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Construction industry has a major problem. General contractors abusing trade partners and running dirty job sites. Stop victim mentality about COVID and supply chains. Everything wrong on project site is general contractor's fault. Superintendent saying I've been doing this 35 years and it's fine is stupid because everyone around him had to smell the mess.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Industry problem: GCs abusing trade partners, pushing through knothole, making people regret construction, dirty disgusting sites
• Stop victim mentality: stop whining about COVID deliveries workers supply chains, you are god of that world, step up
• Criticizing actions not person: I love you, but what you did is separate from who you are, new generation doesn't get this
• Jason credentials: came through field age 13, surveying AutoCAD Revit, ran jobs through preconstruction, not sideline observer consultant
• We stink and need to fix: trade partners didn't win, owner didn't win, workers didn't win, families didn't win, you get no credit

We have the solutions and the answers to fix an industry who doesn't want it, and we have to figure out how to wake people up because this isn't it.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

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Being a life diabetic means having too much care but not enough time to communicate it. Blood sugar is your care and concern. Insulin is time and resources to transfer that care to people who need it. If you care about too many things and everything is important then nothing is important. Would you rather be 100 percent with four things or 40 percent with 10 things.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Diabetes analogy: blood sugar is care, insulin is time and resources, high care with low time means care cannot be communicated
• Too much blood sugar damages organs: too much saying yes, too packed schedules, everything important damages you and burns you out
• Insulin deficiency in life: sign up for 10 things but only have capacity for four, attempt to do all 10, then do none well
• Balance required: need equal levels of care and time and capacity, personal organization systems create buffers and discipline
• Investment question: have 100 units of stock, invest in key investments with high return or one dollar in 100 different places

When everything is important nothing is important, and you are not able to show the amount of care that you have because you are spread too thin.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

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How you do one thing is how you do everything. No such thing as good superintendent who cannot write emails or schedule. Jason took college courses and learned essay structure, grammar, and how to communicate clearly. Executive positions require skilled communicators in interviews, proposals, OAC meetings, design meetings, and emails.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Master big and little things: no good surveyor with bad notes, no good PM without risk management, no good super without scheduling
• College writing courses: learned essay structure, grammar, punctuation, how to summarize and tell stories in coherent way
• Bad email examples: all caps, too short with no context, too long like a book, rambling random thoughts, no structure
• Communication shows up everywhere: interviews, proposals, schedules, OAC meetings, speeches, audits, owner interface, daily reports
• Room for improvement questions: handwriting, email structure, email length, copying team in more, writing better RFIs, advancing career

If somebody said Jason I think you are being dramatic about this fine it is your career, I am simply telling you that this is a fundamental skill you have to have to reach executive levels.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

In this episode, Jason takes on work ethic head on, using a story from an OSHPD project recovery and a real conversation with his father-in-law's family to make his case. He explains why construction has always demanded a willingness to grind through critical moments, from tower crane erections to midnight placements, and why that culture has to be taught at home before it ever shows up on a jobsite. He is direct about the order of priorities he lives by, family, then work, then everything else, and pushes back hard on the idea that comfort and perks should come before delivered value. It is a candid, unapologetic look at what he believes separates people who succeed from people who do not.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why hard work has to be taught early, not coached later
• How family culture shapes work ethic on the jobsite
• Why levity and perks should follow performance, not precede it
• The difference between running toward work and running from it
• Why delivering more value than you are paid is non negotiable

If you are asking for balance, flexibility, or comfort before you have delivered the value that earns it, the honest question is whether you are running toward your work or quietly running away from it.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Pilot on plane cannot be heard, flight attendant clear. Are you clear with your message or mumbling wasting time. Message needs to be clear, passionate, repeated seven times. Katie says everything is your fault if not clear enough. Leaders must overcommunicate where they are going.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Pilot mumbling: can't hear a thing, flight attendant projects clearly, are people hearing your messages
• Seven times minimum: repeat message seven times with passion and clarity for people to know where going
• Elevate overcommunicates: Miro boards map out future, pictures of training facility, website, marketing funnels, positions, structure
• Everything your fault: if not clear enough, didn't explain, didn't repeat often enough, wasn't passionate
• Famous leader example: every year press asks what focus is, repeats same thing until mastered

Don't be the pilot just whispering and mumbling and wasting everybody's time because one day when we actually need to hear from them we can't even hear them.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Fixed mindset versus growth mindset determines progress. Fixed mindset defines self by what they know, growth mindset by what they are learning. Boot camps reveal people to themselves like Navy SEAL training. Heaven is about choice, agency, and progress. Organizations need boot camps to give everyone opportunity regardless of circumstance.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Fixed versus growth: fixed defines by knowledge, jealous, no feedback, growth always learning celebrates others takes feedback
• Boot camps reveal: identify who gives and contributes, who are good but not progressing, who don't play nice
• Heaven and earth: can see people living in three degrees of glory right now based on choices
• Equality for all: everyone should have opportunity to see path forward and choose, not condemned by circumstance
• Religious perspective: no way highest heaven is selfishly sitting, heaven is progress learning service giving health kindness

If something is true good enlightening beautiful honest praiseworthy I am willing at any time to give up everything I believe for a higher truer better faith.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Moving walkway analogy about safety managers. People stop on walkway and go slower than walking. Three options: walk yourself at good pace, use walkway and walk twice as fast, or use walkway and stop going slower. Culture eats strategy for breakfast determines which happens.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Three options: do without at good pace, use moving walkway and walk twice as fast, use and stop going slower
• Culture determines outcome: not strategy of having safety manager, but culture of team using that position
• Safety managers work: if right culture adds efforts plus help, goes twice as fast with less friction
• Cannot delegate safety quality: superintendents PMs do not delegate, you are in charge, cannot check box
• Eternal truth: pee into wind, dancing middle of floor, kids front of church, supers do not delegate safety quality

The question is not is the moving walkway helpful but can the culture utilize it to go faster or will they stop and go slower.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Widen your circle by looping in your team. Fire truck incident taught Jason to copy everyone on emails and text the group. WhatsApp is best platform for team communication. Field engineer asked how to make decisions without stepping on toes. Trust is built when team knows what each other is doing.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Fire truck lesson: Derek asked why Jason didn't tell team, you are member of our team
• WhatsApp system: send message to team, two hours to respond or move forward with decision
• Team should know: where you are, what doing, what decisions making, heading same direction
• No problems belong to individual: all problems belong to team, no stress so bad it can't get worse bearing alone
• Opposite of widening: find out after fact, never in sync, could have quality controlled with second set of eyes

Trust is built when we know each other but also when we know what each other is doing because great teams always work together.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw

Jason calls this one of the single most important podcasts he could ever record. He builds on the German simulation with Janosch Dlouhy and Marco Binninger and uses two simple games, a clapping rhythm exercise from church and the opposing squares game, to explain what flow actually feels like inside a Takt system. The big idea: stop pushing work forward into the next Takt time, and start using the buffer to finish as you go, QC, demobilize, prepare materials, and set up the next trade as your customer. Flow doesn't come from focusing on tasks. It comes from focusing on the people next to you.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why Takt is the first system and last planner and scrum pull to it, not the other way around

• The clapping game analogy: rhythm appears only when you look at the other person, not the task

• Why proper use of buffers for QC and prep speeds up flow as much as interruptions slow it down

• How the opposing squares game shows that teams win only when they appoint a leader and plan together

• How Kingman's formula plays out at the work step level inside every Takt wagon

When trade partners see each other instead of just their own tasks, flow appears. That's the whole game.

If you like the Elevate Construction podcast, please subscribe for free, and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like the Elevate Construction podcast, I'd appreciate you telling a friend (Maybe even two 😊).

Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw