Patton: A Pattern for Construction Superintendents: The art of war and construction are similar. If we are willing to learn the lessons.

Written by Jason Schroeder

Narrated by Virtual Voice

Length

7h 21m

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"Your primary mission as a leader is to see with your own eyes and to be seen by the troops." — General George S. Patton Jr., Standing Orders to the Third ArmyRead that line again, slowly, and ask yourself — isn't that exactly the job of a construction superintendent?Most supers get promoted because they were good foremen. Then nobody trains them to lead. They inherit a trailer, a schedule, a crew, and a pile of problems nobody warned them about — and they figure it out the hard way, one bleeding project at a time.This book is built to shorten that curve.In sixteen chapters, Jason Schroeder walks you through sixteen scenes from the career of one of the most effective — and flawed — field commanders America ever produced. The turnaround at Kasserine. The slap in the hospital ward. The race across France. The pivot to Bastogne. Each scene is followed by the principle underneath it, then a debrief written for Monday morning on a real job, with the crew you actually have.It's not a history book. It's not a movie review. It's a side-by-side — Patton over here, the superintendent over there — for the men and women who walk the deck at first light, sit through the bad meetings, and get the 2 a.m. phone call.Read one chapter a week. Mark it up. Argue with it. Steal what works.Then walk the job tomorrow morning, early. Begin again.