Kicking off a new series, Jason begins reading through Sun Tzu's Art of War and drawing direct parallels to leadership in construction. Starting with Chapter One, "Laying Plans," he walks through the five fundamental factors of strategy, moral influence, weather, terrain, command, and doctrine, showing how each maps onto starting a construction project: gaining your team's trust and vision, assessing site logistics and access, and leading with wisdom, sincerity, humanity, courage, and strictness. He also shares a striking personal insight about how leaders wage a kind of "psychological war" against bad behavior, both in others and within themselves, by making respect and cleanliness the identity people rally behind.
What you'll learn in this episode:
As you start your next project, have you truly assessed your "terrain" and gained your team's moral confidence before laying out the rest of your plan?
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