A construction worker in a hard hat and safety vest frowns at his phone on a jobsite. A pop-up email with a red warning icon offers to send plans through an orange "View Plans" button. Text reads: "The Best Lead I Got All Week Was a Scam."

The Best Lead I Got All Week Was a Scam

That is how a principal at a well-run Phoenix GC opened a leadership conversation I was attending. We were in his conference room, the one with the framed aerial of their first ground-up job from the nineties, and he was talking to his lead estimator. We will call him Marcus.
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Banner reading Hire the Curiosity. Train the Software. What You Can Train, and What You Have to Hire, with three icons: Digital Fluency, most trainable; Problem-Solving, half trainable; Communication, telling the truth early is a hire. A young construction professional shows a veteran a 3D building model on a tablet at a jobsite.

Hire the Curiosity. Train the Software.

That is how a principal at a well-run Phoenix GC opened a leadership conversation I was attending. We were in his conference room, the one with the framed aerial of their first ground-up job from the nineties, and he was talking to his lead estimator. We will call him Marcus.
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Construction worker on a jobsite with an AI graphic overlay, text reads Is AI Going to Kill Us, Wrong Question.

Is AI Going to Kill Us – Wrong Question

That is how a principal at a well-run Phoenix GC opened a leadership conversation I was attending. We were in his conference room, the one with the framed aerial of their first ground-up job from the nineties, and he was talking to his lead estimator. We will call him Marcus.
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