Are your construction projects successful on paper, but your team still feels chaotic, disconnected, or hard to manage?

In this episode, Bradley Hartmann digs deeper into the concept of organizational climate—a hidden force that could be sabotaging your team's cohesion and long-term success, even if you're hitting your deadlines.

Whether it's innovation being stifled by red tape or behavioral standards being overlooked for results, this episode helps you uncover what's really going on beneath the surface.

In this episode you will:

• Learn the 6 key elements that define your team's climate—and how you directly influence each one.
• Discover one practical self-assessment question for every climate factor so you can spot trouble before it turns into turnover or safety issues.
• Hear how a winning football program masked a broken culture—and what you can do differently as a construction leader.

Press play now to gain the clarity you need to lead with purpose, improve your team's performance, and fix the hidden cracks in your culture before they become chaos.

The Construction Leadership Podcast dives into essential leadership topics in construction, including strategy, emotional intelligence, communication skills, confidence, innovation, and effective decision-making. You'll also gain insights into delegation, cultural intelligence, goal setting, team building, employee engagement, and how to overcome common culture problems. Whether you're leading a crew or managing an entire organization, these conversations will equip you with tools to lead smarter and build stronger teams.

This episode is brought to you by The Construction Spanish Toolbox —the most practical way for construction teams to learn jobsite-ready Spanish in just minutes a day over 6 months.

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If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback will help us on our mission to bring the construction community closer together.

If you have suggestions for improvements, topics you'd like the show to explore, or have recommendations for future guests, do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@bradleyhartmannandco.com.

Is it possible you're making silent strategic assumptions that could backfire?

Whether you're leading a construction firm or scaling a tech-driven business, one of the biggest risks you face isn't your competition—it's outdated assumptions.

In this episode, you'll hear how Procore and Trunk Tools in our construction space—as well as traditional movie studios and Netflix, more broadly—found themselves on shifting ground when partnerships turned into rivalries and when core beliefs about their business models no longer matched reality.

In this episode you will learn:

• A powerful mental model to evaluate your assumptions before they lead to strategic missteps
• A real-world breakdown of how Netflix disrupted an industry—and how that mirrors what's happening in construction tech
• Lessons from the Procore and Trunk Tools story that every construction executive should consider before heading into 2026

Hit play to learn how to future-proof your leadership strategy by challenging the assumptions you may not even realize you're making.

The Construction Leadership Podcast dives into essential leadership topics in construction, including strategy, emotional intelligence, communication skills, confidence, innovation, and effective decision-making. You'll also gain insights into delegation, cultural intelligence, goal setting, team building, employee engagement, and how to overcome common culture problems. Whether you're leading a crew or managing an entire organization, these conversations will equip you with tools to lead smarter and build stronger teams.

This episode is brought to you by The Construction Spanish Toolbox —the most practical way for construction teams to learn jobsite-ready Spanish in just minutes a day over 6 months.

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If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback will help us on our mission to bring the construction community closer together.

If you have suggestions for improvements, topics you'd like the show to explore, or have recommendations for future guests, do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@bradleyhartmannandco.com.

After 499 episodes of interviewing experts, walking job sites, and reflecting on real-world leadership challenges in the construction industry, I've uncovered 10.5 powerful truths that completely reshaped how I lead, work, and think.

These aren't recycled clichés—they're earned insights that go deeper than job titles or org charts. Whether you're managing a crew or leading a company, these truths could shift everything for you too.

In this episode you will:

• Hear the mental model that redefined what leadership actually is for me
• Understand why your environment may matter more than your intentions
• Discover the silent leadership killer almost no one talks about—and how to stop it from holding you back

Listen now to uncover the 10.5 hard-won leadership truths that not only shaped this podcast, but also transformed how I lead—and just might change the way you lead too.

And as a bonus, click here, Lesson 10.5 offers a powerful three-part framework for understanding leadership at any level.

The Construction Leadership Podcast dives into essential leadership topics in construction, including strategy, emotional intelligence, communication skills, confidence, innovation, and effective decision-making. You'll also gain insights into delegation, cultural intelligence, goal setting, team building, employee engagement, and how to overcome common culture problems. Whether you're leading a crew or managing an entire organization, these conversations will equip you with tools to lead smarter and build stronger teams.

This episode is brought to you by The Construction Spanish Toolbox —the most practical way for construction teams to learn jobsite-ready Spanish in just minutes a day over 6 months.

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If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback will help us on our mission to bring the construction community closer together.

If you have suggestions for improvements, topics you'd like the show to explore, or have recommendations for future guests, do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@bradleyhartmannandco.com.