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Coastlines to Cranes is your 15-minute midweek chaos cure, hosted by ABC San Diego CEO Shandon Harbour. She’s dishing out unfiltered takes on construction, politics, and apprentice glory—sprinkled with sass, laughs, and zero corporate snooze. Drops Wednesdays at 6 a.m.
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Ep. 45: The Truth About Multi-Skilling and the Merit Shop (opens the original)
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Multi-skilling, or cross-training, is finally getting a serious research treatment, and the early findings should interest any contractor who has ever watched a project schedule slip while one trade waited on another. Shandon Harbour breaks down what cross-training a construction workforce actually does to productivity, employee engagement, and safety, drawing on a new multi-university study commissioned at the national level. She also makes the case for the merit shop itself, a model built on r
Ep. 44: Succession Planning for Contractors ft. Kevin Hartnett (opens the original)
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Construction business succession planning is one of the hardest things a contractor will ever take on, and most owners start far too late. Kevin Hartnett came up through the electrical trade, founded Laser Electric in 1987, and years later sold the company to his son through a plan that took half a decade to build. He joins Shandon Harbour to talk about what it really takes to exit a contracting business well, why the right advisors matter more than most owners realize, and how helping launch AB
Ep. 43: The Truth About Leading Construction Through COVID (opens the original)
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Construction leadership during COVID meant making calls with no playbook and no guarantee they would hold up later. In this episode, Shandon Harbour looks back at the years when construction was declared essential work, apprenticeship labs moved into tents in the back parking lot, and ABC San Diego staff kept coming into the office while much of the region shut down. The recent Fauci hearings brought it all back, including an essential worker letter from April 2020 that is still sitting in her g
Ep. 42: Why Contractors Need a Strong Second in Command ft. Earl the Pearl (opens the original)
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Most small to mid-sized construction businesses can only grow so far before the owner becomes the bottleneck. Leadership at that point is less about slogans and more about who can carry the load when the owner is away. Earl the Pearl returns for a third appearance to talk about building a second in command that you can actually rely on. A retired Marine Corps colonel and former commanding officer of MAG-11, he and Shandon dig into why polished leadership advice rarely holds up on a jobsite, and
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