The separation of planning from doing and the preoccupation with administration contracts and scheduling over designing and building has been disastrous for construction. Lawyers planners risk managers schedulers and other administrative roles impede the ability of architects engineers and craftspeoplethe professionals who design and build the things society needs to function. It isnt just a matter of getting things done on timeif youre the owner of an asset manage a construction company or invest in a project overcoming these limitations is critical to your ability to compete and profit.Todd Zabelle a recognized expert construction CEO and one of the founders of the lean construction movement looks critically at each aspect of the industry from production to construction to design to deployment to what the future holds deftly analyzing where weve gone wrong and offering concrete cleareyed solutions for how to fix it.Zabelles incisive wit and pullsnopunches honesty are a refreshing antidote to the bland overly polite vacuous dialogue of board meetings and academic conferences. Speaking from the heartand informed by over thirty years of experience in all facets of the industryZabelle delivers a muchneeded wakeup call at a time when its needed most.