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Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

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Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

Listening lowers costs. Sounds trite perhaps, but I don’t care. It’s one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my career. Subcontractors are a homebuilder's front-line operations team.

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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.

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Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

Leadership

Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

Listening lowers costs. Sounds trite perhaps, but I don’t care. It’s one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my career. Subcontractors are a homebuilder's front-line operations team.

READ THE STORY
Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

Leadership

Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.

READ THE STORY
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Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

Leadership 05.17.22

Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher

Listening lowers costs. Sounds trite perhaps, but I don’t care. It’s one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my career. Subcontractors are a homebuilder's front-line operations team.

Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money

An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.

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