Archibald McLellan

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405 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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

I said, I'll tell you what.

I will take whatever you're willing to pay me.

And so I was the lowest paid employee at the time.

Spent the first week out in the field with our superintendent, a dog hanging windows, doing things on a multifamily project.

Then I went with another superintendent, Chuck, and then they brought me into the office.

I was in the office for two days and they said, you're never going back in the field.

And I was like, okay.

So by this time we started to do meetings, we started to do all the things that I thought we needed to do to kind of build the team.

And then I went to the president of construction and said, hey, I'd like to do a superintendent working lunch once a month, bring everybody in.

So we brought everybody in and I asked the accounting team to come in, I asked the project management team, I asked the marketing and the front office folks to come in and sit down for this lunch.

And that first meeting was brutal.

It was a two hour bitch session.

We hardly had time to eat.

By the third meeting, we had done that, the third month, coincidentally close to my 90 days.

We got that meeting down where in 45 minutes, we had every project being briefed.

Every superintendent felt like they were heard.

We were able to eat lunch in about 25 minutes.

So at the one and a half hour mark, guys were walking back out the door, feeling like they've been heard.

And then we would do meeting notes afterwards.

And we'd say, hey, this is what we heard you say.

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