You're the Bottleneck: Building the Banks of the River So Your Team Can Flow, with Scott Borroughs

A superintendent's wife wakes up at 2 a.m. to find him pacing the bedroom for the third night straight. She tells him, "This isn't going to work. For anybody." That superintendent was Scott Borroughs, and the project was Deep Space, Epic Systems Systems850,000 square foot auditorium, built 80 feet down through limestone. Scott Borroughs is the Vice President of Field Operations at JP Cullen, a fifth-generation Wisconsin contractor. As general superintendent on Deep Space, he became the decision-making funnel that choked the project, then rebuilt the way he led. In this episode, we walk through how he did it, and how you can do the same without losing control of the work. What you'll learn: How to recognize when you've become the bottleneck on your own project The "banks of the river" framework: define the banks, let people flow between them How to step back from the weeds without feeling like you've stopped working What to do when your team solves a problem differently than you would How JP Cullen turned one project's lessons into ten company-wide SOPs Why you should never confuse activity with accomplishment   Connect with Scott Borroughs on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-borroughs-63999a19 JP Cullen: https://jpcullen.com The Epic Systems Deep Space Auditorium project: https://jpcullen.com/portfolio/epic-deep-space-auditorium