Ep.1493 - Respect Your Partners & Suppliers

This episode explores a powerful but often overlooked truth in construction: your performance is only as strong as the partners and suppliers who support you. Jason shares insights from Toyota and examples from modern construction teams to show how great companies don't just demand excellence from their vendors, they help create it. By training, supporting, and collaborating with partners, leaders build a unified system where everyone wins together. If you want a healthier, more reliable, and more predictable project environment, this episode will reshape how you view your supply chain relationships.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why the most effective companies invest time developing their partners and suppliers, not just monitoring them.
• How Toyota's approach to vendor collaboration creates high reliability, consistent quality, and predictable delivery.
• Why construction leaders should train, support, and educate trade partners just as intentionally as their internal teams.
• How open-door collaboration builds unity and eliminates the "us versus them" mentality on projects.
• What it looks like when owners and GCs truly work shoulder to shoulder with trade partners to elevate performance.

If your success depends on your partners, what would change if you treated their growth and stability as a direct extension of your own?

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