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Okay, everybody. Welcome out to podcast number 1396. In this podcast, I'm going to talk about Situation Rooms. 

Stay with us. Welcome, everybody. I hope you're doing well. 

And I am so excited about this. I am still in Ensenada, in dock. People are coming back in about two and a half hours and we'll be on our way back to Los Angeles.

De board and be heading home seven hour drive. So I'll be finishing a book called Understanding Japan. And then there's another book finding your and I don't even know how to say it or spell it, but he got key.

I don't even know if that's right. But it's books that are recommended to me by by Paul Laker. So the let me let me see if I can do this.

The five books that we're reading for the Japan study trip are Two Second Lean Again, Banished Sloppiness, which I think is phenomenal. Bushido, The Soul of Japan, Understanding Japan and then that fifth one and then a number of articles. So I'm really excited about that. 

By the way, Kate talked to me about Whisper Flow. W I S P R space F L O W to read the articles. I thought that was that was awesome.

That she shared that with me anyway. So that's what I'll be doing. But in the meantime, I wanted to get caught up on podcasts. 

So we're at 13 96 and Situation Rooms. I'm telling you, I want you to do this. I want to see this. 

I will always have this on job sites from now on. I will encourage this. In fact, I really want no, no, no, I'm actually going to design a Situation Room. 

Okay. And so like here in about a month, we should have a full design for this. But a Situation Room is a centralized space used by leaders, teams or organizations to monitor, manage and respond to critical events or operations in real time.

Depending on the context, it can serve different but related functions. Let me tell you the genesis of this. So I read the book Building the Empire State about obviously built building the Empire State Building and the general superintendent thing. 

I just forgot his name. Well, that's I always I know his name, but I just forgot it while I was on this podcast. Anyway, okay, so somebody would say Jason, we don't need a Situation Room because you we should be out in the field.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that's the dilemma of command with knowing where to be, whether it's back at the command post or out on the front, you've got to balance that. But I'm telling you, like that superintendent building the Empire State Building, he had runners that would go give and bring back information. If he was out just walking everywhere and talking to everybody all day, he couldn't get anything done, keep it in rhythm and have such success as he did.

You think you think Frank Crow on the Boulder Dam, you think he was out in the field all the time, or do you think he had a central command location where he could plan and make sure everything was going well. Situation rooms are needed. And I actually want to see not just your conference room, but I want to see some situation rooms. 

Let me let me go forward. I was on a data center with a really progressive general superintendent. And he was asking me for advice and I was like, hey, home slice, we've got to have an amazing Situation Room. 

We have got to really make sure we understand what's going on here. And I want you to have your own room. I want to have at least six monitors. 

One of the monitors is going to have the macro level tag plan. The other monitor is going to have your KPIs. The other monitor is going to have your visuals for anything that's going on in the site. 

Your other monitor is going to have the availability for you to see the 3D model. The other monitor is going to allow you to connect with anybody through Zoom, anybody that you need to see. The other monitor is going to be your own computer screen where you can do this. 

You can have a stand up area. People can come in and out. You've got good. 

Oh my gosh, this is so good. You got your access to the intercom system. You got your radio. 

You've got your cell phone. You've got access anywhere you need to go. Okay. 

And this channel superintendent was like stoked, stoked about this. So let me keep describing it just for a minute. In government or military, a secure command center used for crisis management, intelligence monitoring, and decision making during emergencies.

Example, the White House Situation Room is where U.S. presidents and national security advisors coordinate during military operations or global crises. In business or construction, a war room or project command center set up to bring key stakeholders together to resolve problems, track progress, or manage high priority initiatives often used during project recoveries, incident response, complex planning phases equipped with data, dashboards, timelines, and decision logs. In tech or IT, a real-time operation center like a NOC or SOC where teams monitor systems, performance, cybersecurity threats, or large-scale outages.

Common features, real-time data feeds or dashboards, clear roles and communication protocols, decision logs and escalation plans, whiteboards, digital tools, or visual management boards, cross-functional team presence. And the purpose is to centralize decision making as a team, not command and control. Reduce communication lag and act quickly in fast moving or high stakes situations.

If you're looking to set one up in a construction context or project setting, then you might have to design it specifically with its own dedicated space and its own dedicated leader. Here's the vision. Now, I'm not talking about command and control, so please don't think that that's what I'm talking about. 

I'm talking about that you have an area where any leader for any area can literally not become the bottleneck and the executive core or core group can get the other people what they need in a fractal manner. And so I want to see one of these set up and I want to see it set up in a working manner to where it's quite remarkable. I issue that as a challenge. 

I know this is a short podcast, but I'm going to start digging into this. And I also think this is a key for remote project management. Not that I like that. 

I do like being on site, but we do have to figure that out with the shortage of people and with how complex projects are getting nowadays. So I want to issue that as a challenge. This is something I haven't done before, but I want to get done and I'm excited to explore with you. 

I hope you've enjoyed this podcast. I want to go. This is your preferred podcast listening platform. 

We really appreciate it. We'll catch you next time on the elevate construction podcast.

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