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Ethics & accountability · Owning failure

Your schedule and buyout decisions drove a subcontractor to rush a critical waterproofing detail, and now there's a leak that damaged finished units below. The easy move is to pin it entirely on the sub's workmanship. How do you handle accountability?

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The honest root cause here starts with me — I compressed the schedule and made buyout calls that pushed that sub to rush a detail that can't be rushed, so pinning it all on their w…

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