Archibald McLellan

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · Don’t Let Weak Process Stop Your Growth with Archibald McLellan · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

They had huge egos and they would walk into a room and they would own the room and then they would make miracles happen.

But if they went into the wrong room or things weren't quite set up properly, they didn't have enough

wasta to be able to pull it off every time and so this this checklist mentality this process the discipline to have a process of ask those questions really helped us kind of kind of solidify this and you know at towards the end of this i was able to be the director of this program yeah and we started to implement some of these things and we started to foster relationships yeah because at the end of the day this whole thing construction

is all about relationships totally it's it's the field it's the office totally and there can't be it's got to be together it can't be adversarial

yeah it's all about the money right and and so if you don't start from a position of knowledge and strength about the money you're you're off to you're off to a race to the bottom yep and and we never want to end up down there so you know the first thing is is really being able to develop

the overarching strategy of how you're gonna do this thing.

The budget and the schedule have to be inextricably linked.

And then your communication plan of how you are going to communicate, because communication isn't just about telling people what you're doing.

It's about making sure you foreshadow

You let them know that, hey, in six weeks, we're going to be doing this.

Therefore, and before you start the project, you work out the cash flow plan and you make sure that they're going to go with it.

That's tied into your budget so that the communications are strategic steps to get you to the point of going,

Mr. Client, I need you, Mrs. Client, I need you to give me the check because over the next period of time, we're going to be doing these seven things you've agreed to have us do.

And so it all comes together.

And so the books are the most important thing because at the end of the day, if you can't pay people, they typically don't want to work.

If you can't pay suppliers, they typically don't want to loan you their trusses, their plywood, their nails, their glue.

So...

You have to have that money and clients want to make sure you've got a plan.

Let me see the budget.

Let me see the schedule.

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