If you’ve ever stared at your month-end and wondered where the profit went, this conversation is the flashlight you’ve been missing. We talk candidly about the real money leaks in contracting—underbilling, missing labor burden, ignored equipment repairs—and the uncomfortable leadership shift required to fix them. Profit isn’t a dirty word; it’s a discipline, and the Work In Progress (WIP) report is the tool that turns chaos into clarity. With returning guest Nick Peters of Sterling Seacrest ...
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If you’ve ever stared at your month-end and wondered where the profit went, this conversation is the flashlight you’ve been missing. We talk candidly about the real money leaks in contracting—underbilling, missing labor burden, ignored equipment repairs—and the uncomfortable leadership shift required to fix them. Profit isn’t a dirty word; it’s a discipline, and the Work In Progress (WIP) report is the tool that turns chaos into clarity. With returning guest Nick Peters of Sterling Seacrest ...
Ep. 62 – Visibility Wins: Make the Invisible, Visible
Blue Collar Business Podcast
1 hour 3 minutes
3 weeks ago
Ep. 62 – Visibility Wins: Make the Invisible, Visible
Hard work shouldn’t feel like guesswork. Sy sits down with Zach Estes, founder of Lean Dirt, to unpack a simple, battle-tested way to run civil construction with less chaos and more clarity. We get straight into the 2-3-4 framework, two systems, three actions, four routines, that turns hidden information into visible standards and transforms accountability from a speech into a system. We start by reframing value vs waste and why civil construction is real value creation, then zoom into the t...
Blue Collar Business Podcast
If you’ve ever stared at your month-end and wondered where the profit went, this conversation is the flashlight you’ve been missing. We talk candidly about the real money leaks in contracting—underbilling, missing labor burden, ignored equipment repairs—and the uncomfortable leadership shift required to fix them. Profit isn’t a dirty word; it’s a discipline, and the Work In Progress (WIP) report is the tool that turns chaos into clarity. With returning guest Nick Peters of Sterling Seacrest ...
