Jason has fun with one of his favorite metaphors for the mindset the industry needs more of: the honey badger. He shares the story of trying to caption a LinkedIn post about Katie, the CEO of Elevate Construction, and landing on the perfect title (the "honeycorn," a honey badger with unicorn powers). He then walks through the honey badger's actual biological traits and turns each one into a leadership attribute, closing with the field engineer boot camp mascot Steve Snyder helped inspire and the standing charge: figure it out, enable the craft, and be the badger.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why Katie earned the title of "honeycorn" and what that says about leading a construction company

• The traits of the honey badger: strong, independent, defended, well nourished, nimble, intelligent, and long lived

• Why honey badgers are known for problem solving, escaping enclosures, and sleeping off snake bites

• Steve Snyder's origin of the field engineer boot camp mascot and the phrase "figure it out, enable the craft, and be the badger"

• The core mindset shift: most losses in construction aren't circumstantial, they're mental

Be the honey badger. Nurtured, fearless, tenacious, nimble, and not wasteful. That's the mindset construction actually needs.

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