Tag: construction

Tragedy of the commons…

At many levels in business and society there is competition between individual gain and collective good. There is a paradox, or an incompatibility, an incongruence, a conflict – whatever it is, it is there, and a balance needs to be maintained for optimum performance for the collective. Imagine that you are a seasoned construction[…]

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Sit-on belt habit risk

On my lunchtime stroll, walking the office dog, I pass the nearby construction site that has been going for near on 6 months, if not more now. It’s a relatively simple road reconstruction of one of the main routes into this suburb of Edinburgh. It’s been to source of many a pondering thought and never […]

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We Just Don’t Trust You.

We Just Don’t Trust You. You don’t have to look far for examples of the mistrust that fuels the ‘them and us’ culture in construction. “But we meant well”, doesn’t cut it anymore. We should take responsibility for crap we have come up with, apologise, stop it and move on. Here’s an example – The […]

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