1 minute readSweat the details.”
In two decades reporting on people whose livelihoods devote to making new homes and communities, that’s one of the more commonly spoken “secrets” to dealing with all the moving parts.
And it’s one to celebrate and call to account.
For today, by any calculus, homebuilding’s biggest story is one of its details – the “small stuff” – whose impact is almost incalculable in human terms.
The “small stuff” today, and tomorrow, and for the foreseeable days ahead in mid-July and August and early September involves the some “Sweating the details,” in and of itself – when the business and construction community at large professes it needs a million freshly-minted skilled frontline workers in the next 36 to 60 months to rebalance versus the need for construction volume – means different and clearer-eyed and more materially impactful things now than it did when construction’s labor capacity challenges came to light more than a decade ago in the wake of the Great Recession. That too runs true to the spirit in which the habit has been mentioned so often among the good homebuilding leaders and managers I’ve gotten to speak with over the years. Sweating the details never stops, which is one of the surest signs of proof that homebuilding’s capability culture has its best days ahead of it.Join the conversation
