Elevating Construction Project Managers: From Administrator to Leader: Replacing Paperwork with People, Process, and Quality (The Art of the Builder)

From administrator to leader — the project manager our industry actually needs.You know the pattern. The RFIs that should never have been needed. The change orders that exist because the work upstream was never finished. The trades you are driving instead of leading. The superintendent who feels undermined. The young APM learning to yell because nobody showed them another way.That is not a personality problem. It is what the industry has trained project manager to mean — and it is what has to change.This book is the alternative. Twelve moves a real project manager makes — every one of them drawn from real projects, real trailers, and real teams — told through the fable of one PM who walked onto a job that had been run badly for years and refused to run it the way it had always been run.Inside, you will learn how to:Cast a vision the team can carry without looking at a piece of paperBuild the stage your people need before they need itEnable your superintendent instead of working against themTreat your trade partners like the elite partners they actually areSet the score, shape the culture, and clear the risk before it landsDevelop the next generation of project managers — and heal the industry while you do itIf you are tired of being the clerk and ready to be the builder — this is your book. Read more