Do your Hispanic crews trust you—or are you unknowingly creating resentment, risk, and delays on your job site?

Many construction leaders default to task-based trust without realizing that different cultures build trust in different ways. This leads to miscommunication, accountability issues, and slow performance—all of which can sabotage your leadership without you even knowing it.

In this episode you will:

• Learn why your leadership style may be unintentionally creating resistance to change.
• Discover how cultural intelligence builds stronger teams, safer job sites, and faster schedules.
• Walk away with one simple action that builds trust without costing time or money.

Press play to learn how cultural intelligence can eliminate confusion, improve accountability, and help you lead your team better—starting today.

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Is your strategy based on assumptions that haven’t been tested in years?

In this final episode in our mini-series on Dr. Peter Drucker’s “Theory of the Business” article, Bradley Hartmann breaks down how the NCAA’s outdated assumptions and refusal to adapt destroyed its hold on college football—and what construction leaders must learn to avoid the same fate.

From resistance to change to blind spots in emotional intelligence and decision-making, this real-life case study reveals how ignoring your business environment can kill your team's performance.

In this episode, you will:

• Discover how one outdated belief system brought down a billion-dollar institution.
• Learn how to spot and correct faulty assumptions in your own leadership strategy.
• Understand how to use Drucker’s “Theory of the Business” to guide better decisions and stronger teams.

Hit play to learn how to reinforce your leadership strategy by seeing what the NCAA failed to—and how you can lead with clarity and eliminate confusion.

You can download Drucker’s seminal article here.

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Are your assumptions about your construction business still valid—or are they silently holding you back from further growth and success?

In today’s episode, we uncover how outdated thinking—even from a wildly successful company like DeBeers, present in both construction and diamond mining—can destroy long-term performance. We explore Peter Drucker’s “Theory of the Business” and to show how your unexamined assumptions about your market, mission, and core strengths could be holding your team back.

Whether you're facing resistance to change or struggling to lead better, this episode gives you a real-time case study about the clarity needed to lead with strategy and decisive action, not reaction.

In this episode you will:

• Learn how to test and evolve your assumptions before your strategy becomes obsolete.
• Discover how to evaluate the risks and opportunities that new technology presents in uncertain times.
• Walk away with a simple framework to align your leadership with a fast-changing construction environment.

Hit play to learn how to avoid the hidden traps that have brought down giants—and future-proof your construction business starting today.

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Are outdated beliefs silently sabotaging your construction team’s performance?

In today’s episode, Bradley Hartman breaks down Peter Drucker’s timeless “Theory of the Business” to reveal how even successful construction leaders risk falling into groupthink and losing touch with reality—especially when they assume they already know what their customers need.

In this episode you will:

• Learn why updating your business assumptions is key to staying competitive in a fast-changing industry.
• Discover how to identify blind spots within your leadership team.
• Hear how a century-old retail strategy can reshape your customer approach today.

Press play now to discover one mindset shift that can help you lead with more clarity and better control.

You can download Drucker’s seminal article here.

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What if the primary assumptions guiding your business decisions are outdated—and no one on your leadership team is willing to say it?

This episode of The Construction Leadership Podcast dives into Peter Drucker’s Theory of the Business and explores why many construction executives unintentionally resist change—despite clear signals from the market.

Using the story of Jaws as a metaphor, we highlight how unchecked assumptions that led to past success can now lead to strategic misalignment, operational firefighting, and frustrated teams.

In this episode, you will:

• Identify the assumptions that may be holding back your business—and how to surface them with your team.
• Learn a 3-part framework (EMC²) to lead with more clarity and less resistance.
• Understand how world-class leaders use “constructive discontent” to stay accountable and lead better through change with innovation.

Listen now to upgrade your strategic thinking, build buy-in across your leadership team, and lead your construction business with more focus and less firefighting.

You can download Drucker’s seminal article here.

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Is your team resistant to change—coasting instead of attacking as you lead the team toward continuous improvement?

Here’s what Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers can teach you about reversing the trend and building a high-performance identity.

This episode breaks down a surprising performance turnaround from one of the slowest teams in all of baseball—and shows how the same mindset shift, when applied to construction leadership, can reduce confusion, increase accountability, and build elite teams that consistently deliver.

In this episode, you will discover how to:

• Apply a simple 4-step framework to lower resistance and create lasting change in your construction teams
• Communicate why attitude and effort outperform raw skill when backed by the right metric
• Shift your team’s identity through daily habits and leadership clarity

If you want to eliminate firefighting, reduce confusion, and lead with more control, hit play now and learn how to drive measurable change—fast.

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Ever feel like your team knows what’s expected—but still falls short, time and again?

If you're a construction leader tired of repeating yourself, dealing with resistance to change, and constantly putting out fires, it may not be a people problem—it might be a standards problem.

This episode reveals how vague expectations are undermining performance, and what to do about it.

In this episode featuring host Bradley Hartmann and his 13-year-old son who is a catcher, you will:

• Discover how clear, documented standards can radically improve accountability without micromanagement.
• Learn a simple tool you can apply immediately to boost team performance.
• Hear a relatable story that reframes how leadership standards can transform not just teams—but relationships.

Listen now to uncover the power of clear standards and how to use them to coach, lead, and build elite construction teams—without the firefighting.

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Do you know which of your leadership decisions will pay off—and which are quietly setting you up for delays, cost overruns, or missed opportunities?

In this episode, you’ll learn how legendary Orioles manager Earl Weaver built a career on outthinking his opponents—thanks to lessons learned from his mob-connected bookie, Uncle Bud. We’ll break down how these same probabilistic thinking skills can transform how you lead construction projects, forecast challenges, and guide your team to consistently win.

By listening, you’ll discover:

• The 4 components of a great prediction and why they matter more than gut instinct.
• How to measure and improve your decision-making accuracy over time.
• A free tool you can start using today to see problems before they happen and lead with more confidence.

Hit play now and learn how to make sharper predictions, improve your leadership accuracy, and keep your projects on time and under budget.

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