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Construction Genius | Construction Leadership
by Eric Anderton | Construction Leadership · English
Construction Genius is a construction leadership podcast for owners and senior leaders of commercial general contractors and specialty contractors. Host Eric Anderton interviews construction owners and executives about how they run their companies. Solo episodes break down one leadership or management problem at a time. Topics include developing project managers and superintendents, construction business development and negotiated work, succession planning and ESOPs, construction accounting and bonding capacity, and AI in construction. Eric has worked only with construction companies for more than 20 years. His coaching clients run firms from $10M to over $3B in revenue, and he facilitates their strategic and succession planning.
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Construction Leadership: What Your Failure to Listen Is Costing Your Company
Construction leadership and profitability losses caused by poor listening; how to listen to clients, partners, field staff, and subcontractors to surface problems, align teams, and remove obstacles.
10 Nov 2026 · 18m · 8 chaptersTime Management for Construction Leaders: Stop Fighting Fires
Construction leadership time management—stop “fighting fires” by prioritizing prevention (long-term priorities) using the Eisenhower Matrix and time blocking, plus an interruption audit and weekly…
3 Nov 2026 · 23m · 10 chaptersHow to Spot a Trojan Horse in Your Construction Business
How to recognize “Trojan horse” opportunities in construction—projects, hires, acquisitions, or new business lines that look promising but become costly due to weak due diligence, undisciplined…
27 Oct 2026 · 53m · 17 chaptersLeadership in Construction: The Meeting Structure That Gets Your Team to Agree in 30 Minutes
A construction leadership meeting structure to reach team agreement in about 30 minutes, using a precise process for generating ideas, prioritizing, and creating a one-page action plan.
20 Oct 2026 · 16m · 10 chaptersHow to Hire Construction Business Developers Who Win Large Commercial Projects
How construction companies should hire, onboard, and retain business development (BD) professionals who can sell large commercial projects, emphasizing the right “sales DNA,” a documented sales…
13 Oct 2026 · 48m · 16 chaptersYear-End Close for Contractors: Check Your Numbers Before You Pay Bonuses
Year-end close for contractors—how to prevent profit “disappearing” after bonuses by ensuring accurate job costing, WIP, revenue/cost cutoff, and reconciliations before CPA review/tax filings.
6 Oct 2026 · 22m · 10 chaptersYour Field Problems Start in Design: What the Suffolk and MIT AI Report Means for Contractors
How AI from the Suffolk and MIT white paper “Construction in the Age of AI” could help contractors catch design-driven problems earlier, improve schedule and procurement decisions, and reduce manual…
29 Sep 2026 · 13m · 6 chaptersThe $20 Million Job You Should Walk Away From
How to decide whether to accept a lucrative “$20 million” construction project and whether to keep a technically excellent superintendent who increasingly violates company values; argues for a…
22 Sep 2026 · 19m · 10 chaptersConstruction Projections: Seeing Cash and Margin Trouble Before It Costs You
How construction companies should build and maintain revenue, cash, and workforce projections by extending WIP and backlog into future timelines to prevent margin erosion, cash-flow shortfalls, and…
15 Sep 2026 · 23m · 11 chaptersFixing Performance Reviews for the Field with Ryan Englin
How to make accountability and performance reviews work in construction—stop postponing hard conversations, give clear expectations, and redesign reviews so they aren’t surprises.
8 Sep 2026 · 40m · 15 chaptersYou're the Bottleneck: Building the Banks of the River So Your Team Can Flow, with Scott Borroughs
Scott Burroughs recounts becoming the “bottleneck” on the Deep Space auditorium project, then resetting his leadership by defining “banks of the river” (milestones, safety/quality, and communication…
1 Sep 2026 · 38m · 11 chaptersChatGPT in Construction: A Working Contractor on What Works, What Fails, and What to Do First
A working NYC mechanical contractor explains how he used ChatGPT for a year in real construction workflows, what it does well (80%+ time savings) vs what fails, and the first steps to adopt it…
25 Aug 2026 · 22m · 9 chaptersHow to Grow Bonding Capacity: Banking and Tax Moves for Contractors
Contractors’ “bonding capacity” depends on aligning three stakeholders—bank, bonding company, and CPA/tax strategy—because each evaluates the same financial statements differently and optimizations…
18 Aug 2026 · 27m · 12 chaptersHow MEP Contractors Make Money With Prefab
How MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) contractors can make money with prefabrication—without falling for hype—by treating prefab as a labor and production-system strategy, not “manufacturing” or…
11 Aug 2026 · 46m · 13 chaptersSelling to Your Employees: How ESOPs Work for Construction Company Succession
ESOP-based succession for construction company owners—how employee stock ownership plans work, how the buyout is financed, why ESOPs are growing in construction, and how to manage risks like…
4 Aug 2026 · 39m · 20 chaptersQuestion Everything: How to Innovate Construction Materials and Methods
Sam Furtick (Carbon Builders) argues construction should “question everything” and innovate by using insulated concrete forms (ICF) to build homes that are healthier, quieter, more energy-efficient,…
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