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Before You Hire or Buy Software, Fix This First in Your Construction Business | E408

Release Date: 09/08/2025

Your Construction Business Is Doing Exactly What It’s Designed To Do | Ep 423

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🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 423: Does this sound familiar? You set goals every year, swear you'll fix the chaos in your business, and then 12 months later, you’re still firefighting, still stuck in the same mess, and all you have is a stack of “almosts.” In this episode, I am breaking down why so many construction businesses hit the same wall over and over again no matter how hard the owners work. You’ll hear the 4 structural traps that are secretly...

How Elon Musk Would Streamline Your Construction Business: 5 Steps | E422

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🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 422: If you’re a general contractor, and you feel like you're buried under processes, stuck in the weeds, and constantly spinning to keep things moving... this episode is going to give you the roadmap to simplify, systematize, and scale without burning out. I will be diving into Elon Musk's 5-step algorithm for making complex systems work better and show you exactly how to apply it to your construction business. Here's the deal:...

The Builder Identity Crisis: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There | Ep 421

The Construction Leading Edge Podcast

🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 421: If you feel stuck in your business, the problem might not be your team, your schedule, or your subs… it might be your identity. In this episode, I’m discussing one of the biggest hidden growth killers I’ve seen in the construction world. The version of you that got your business to this point likely won’t get you to where you want to go. In fact, it might be the very thing holding you back. I will unpack 4 old...

Cut Preconstruction Timelines in Half: 6 Strategies From Managing $300M | E420

The Construction Leading Edge Podcast

🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 420: If pre-construction is dragging on, you’re not just losing time but also revenue, team capacity, and control. In this episode, I’m going to show you how to cut your pre-construction timelines in half and finally get your projects to the starting line on time. Here’s what we’re going to cover: The biggest mistakes contractors make at the beginning of a project Why do many projects die in pre-construction How to...

Repossess Your Time by Fixing These 3 Hidden Design Flaws in Your Construction Business | Ep 419

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🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 419: You’re regularly putting in 70-hour weeks, but the needle still isn’t moving. Calls. Texts. Problems. Decisions. It all falls on you. It may not be a time management problem but a design problem. In this episode, I’ll explain why your business keeps pulling you back into chaos, and how to finally break free from the day-to-day firefighting. Here’s what we’ll cover: Why working harder won’t fix your time problem ...

Accountability Requires Clarity: How to Get Your Team to Take Ownership | E418

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🚀Download our FREE Strategic Planning Guide ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 418: Are you tired of chasing your team for every little thing? Getting your team to take ownership is one of the most common frustrations I hear from construction business owners. But here’s the truth: your team isn’t lazy, and it’s not a people problem. It’s a clarity problem. In this episode of The Construction Leading Edge podcast, I’ll explain why the real barrier to accountability is often a lack of clear expectations, processes,...

Get Out of the Builder Trap with Daniel Queen | E417

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🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 417: Are you tired of doing everything in your construction business and still feeling stuck? Most construction business owners believe that working harder will solve everything. However, Daniel Queen, founder of Built by Coalition, a custom home building company in Charlotte, North Carolina, discovered that by wearing too many hats, he became the bottleneck in his business. In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast,...

Scaling Fast? Stop Chasing Sales and Fix THIS First with Cole West | E416

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🚀Download our FREE Strategic Planning Guide ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 416: Is your construction business always in firefighting mode? As a project manager turned integrator at Matchless Concrete Construction, Cole West knew they were growing too fast, but they were also bleeding money, missing deadlines, and drowning in chaos. In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, Cole shares how he and his team have dramatically reduced chaos, boosted margins, and reclaimed lost time. Today, we’ll talk about… ...

7-Figure Growth Starts with Lean Systems w/ Tod Ingersoll | E415

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🚀Download our FREE Strategic Planning Guide ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team – EPISODE 415: Do you always feel like you’re constantly putting out fires, drowning in details, and barely keeping your construction business afloat? It doesn’t always have to be that way. In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, I sat down with Tod Ingersoll, founder and president of NuWood Creations, who scaled his company from doing small projects to 7-figure design-build jobs by doing something most contractors avoid—letting go. Today,...

The Hidden Reason Your Projects Keep Slipping—and How to Stop It | E414

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🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook ☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team 📝Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the FREE Online Assessment – EPISODE 414: Have you ever had a project delay wreck your schedule and cash flow? Most of us would argue that project slippage is beyond our control, but actually, it’s not. In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, I’ll unpack four powerful strategies to stop project slippage from derailing your business. Today, you’ll learn… Why project...

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EPISODE 408: Most construction owners are bleeding profit and burning out, not because they lack good people, but because they’re building their business in the wrong sequence.

In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, I’m breaking down the biggest mistake construction business owners make when trying to fix chaos. (Spoiler: it’s not about hiring more people or buying the latest software.)

Instead, I’ll walk you through a simple 3-step sequence that has helped hundreds of contractors eliminate chaos, grow profits, and finally build a business that runs without them.

Here’s what you’ll take away from this episode…

Why even your best hires can’t solve your team’s struggles
The secret profit phase most contractors ignore (and why it’s costing them big)
How buying software too soon often backfires
The one question you should ask to stop answering the same problems over and over again
How pre-construction shapes your margins, schedule, and customer satisfaction

…and more!

If you’re tired of firefighting every day and being the bottleneck in your own business, this episode will show you the path to freedom.

Let’s dive in!

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Chaos stems from the wrong sequence (01:08)

The problem with most business coaches (03:58)

What a systematized construction business looks like (08:13)

The three-step sequence in systematizing a business (12:40)

How software or tech fails without a defined process (26:05)

Quick episode recap (27:59)

Take the first 5-minute step (30:32)

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