Performance by Kevin McManus
Industrial Engineer’s monthly column about performance improvement (December 2012)
Building lessons
This summer I tried my hand at construction. After all, I was an engineer, I had watched things being built on television, and, most importantly, I had drawings and instructions. Where could I go wrong? The easy way was to buy kits for our deck and building, but I thought I would learn more by doing it myself. The same twisted logic had me mix one and a half tons of concrete for the pier posts and dig the holes – as if I needed additional evidence that I was older than 50.
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