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Construction Genius

Thomas Edison said, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." This show interviews hard-working construction company owners and executives who share their wisdom, perspectives, and lessons learned from decades of experience bidding, planning, and building profitable…

Podcast · By Eric Anderton · English · Official site

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Sep 22, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    The $20 Million Job You Should Walk Away From (opens the original)

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    A $20 million project lands in your lap with three or four red flags attached. You want the revenue. You want the backlog. In this solo episode, Eric Anderton walks through the three-for-three test he uses with his coaching clients: right client, right project, right location. He also tackles a harder problem. What do you do with a technically excellent superintendent whose behavior no longer matches your company's values? Two decisions, and Eric shows you exactly how they can start reinforcing

  2. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    Construction Projections: Seeing Cash and Margin Trouble Before It Costs You (opens the original)

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    Your WIP shows today. Your backlog shows what's booked. Neither tells you where your cash and crews are headed. That's what projections do, and most contractors either do them badly or skip them. In Part 8 of the series, CPA Kathe Barrington shows construction owners how to build projections that actually predict trouble early. What you'll take away: Why projections belong to your CFO, and where owners still need to stay involved How far out to project (18 months internally, fiscal year-end for

  3. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    Fixing Performance Reviews for the Field with Ryan Englin (opens the original)

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    Ryan Englin, founder of Core Matters and creator of the FieldCon software platform, returns to talk about the two things most construction leaders dodge: accountability and performance reviews. Ryan and Eric get practical about why these conversations feel so hard and how to make them routine. The short version. Accountability starts with a commitment the employee actually agreed to. The longer you wait to address a problem, the more painful it gets. And the annual review is the worst way to giv

  4. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    You're the Bottleneck: Building the Banks of the River So Your Team Can Flow, with Scott Borroughs (opens the original)

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    A superintendent's wife wakes up at 2 a.m. to find him pacing the bedroom for the third night straight. She tells him, "This isn't going to work. For anybody." That superintendent was Scott Borroughs, and the project was Deep Space, Epic Systems Systems850,000 square foot auditorium, built 80 feet down through limestone. Scott Borroughs is the Vice President of Field Operations at JP Cullen, a fifth-generation Wisconsin contractor. As general superintendent on Deep Space, he became the decision-

  5. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    ChatGPT in Construction: A Working Contractor on What Works, What Fails, and What to Do First (opens the original)

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    You're a contractor, you're busy, and you're tired of LinkedIn consultants telling you that you'll be left behind if you don't embrace AI right now. Smart move to tune out the hype — but here's the catch: while you're waiting for the noise to die down, a few of your competitors are quietly using these tools to save hours every week. Not on flashy stuff. On the boring stuff. Meeting minutes, SOPs, pulling scope language out of a 200-page addendum. Dimitri Sidiropoulos is the Vice President of Del

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