Lean Construction Audio Book

This is a compilation of a series of podcasts that I have done with Lean Construction folks. It is about 3 hours in length and requires no registration for access. At the time, Gregory A. Howell was the managing director of theLean Construction Institute(LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and Read More …

4 Powerful Words: What Do You Think?

Exactly, respect for people. I read a good story J.W. Marriott Jr. who said the four most powerful words he knows is ‘What do you think?’ So I was asking folks what do you think? Here’s a plan, what do you think, and then getting reliable promises, reliable commitments from folks to do that walk. Read More …

Becoming a Lean Construction Consultant

Dave MacNeel of On Point Lean Consulting: Lean Construction was my guest this week on the podcast. On Point Lean Consulting provides on-site Lean Construction coaching and training for owners, builders, and designers looking to improve the delivery of capital projects. Dave has a few great stories as he went from project management, introducing Lean into a construction company Read More …

Lean Construction Stack

This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: The Lean Construction Stack I organized this stack on Lean Construction interviews with Gregory Howell, Alan Mossman and others along with a little Project Management. I ended up with 7 publications in the stack at the time of this publication. Stacks Read More …

Pull Planning

One of my favorite and a podcast that ended up influencing me quite a bit was with Gregory Howell. At the time, Greg was the managing director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and construction. The Last Planner® (sometimes referred to as the Last Planner® Read More …

Conversations in Project Planning

Alan Mossman of The Change Business trained as an architect and worked for many years in management and organization development. He only returned to construction in 2000 building on his knowledge and understanding of collaboration, systems thinking, quality and lean. I asked Alan about the promised conversation cycle. Related Podcast and transcription: A Lean Project Read More …