“Business moves at the speed of trust.” Stephen Covey said it. Every construction project proves it.
Walk onto a high-performing construction project and you can feel it before you can describe it. Problems surface quickly and transparently. Solutions are proposed by multiple players and decisions get made firmly. People are direct and respectful. Nobody is performing for the camera.
Walk onto a low-performing one and you feel that too. Emails instead of calls. Formal notices where conversations could have solved the problem. A contractor who stopped telling the owner about problems because the last time they did, it turned into an interrogation.
Covey’s observation that business moves at the speed of trust is never truer than on a complex construction project. Trust is an operating variable with a direct line to schedule and cost.
Chris Voss frames it this way: “Negotiation is not an act of battle; it’s a process of discovery.” A good selection process works the same way. You’re not trying to win, you’re trying to find the right partner for this specific project.
An Owner’s Rep who knows your market curates a shortlist of firms they have worked with before, whose work they know, and whose culture fits with yours.
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