Building People Who Build Hospitals: A New Plan for Healthcare Construction (Building Construction People) - Softcover

Toftely, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798995214212

Verlag: Building Construction People Group, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Most construction books focus on schedules, budgets, and delivery methods. This book focuses on the people.

The buildings will eventually be torn down or renovated. The people you develop, the trust you build, the standards you establish... that's the foundation that will outlast any structure. Yet nobody teaches you how to build it. The technical skills that earn the promotion aren't the ones that build a career worth having. At some point, every construction professional faces the same question: am I just delivering projects, or am I building something that lasts?

In Building People Who Build Hospitals, veteran construction leader Michael Toftely shares the leadership framework he developed over 25 years and more than $1 billion in healthcare construction programs, the most demanding environment in the industry. The principles were proven in hospitals where patients are still being treated and critical systems can't fail. But they apply to any construction professional who wants to lead better, not just build faster.

Inside the book, you'll learn how to:

• Build and maintain trust through small, consistent actions that compound into lasting partnerships
• Develop teams that take ownership and lead without waiting for you to be the hero
• Earn the confidence of owners and stakeholders by making their mission your mission
• Deliver exceptional work without sacrificing your health, your relationships, and the things that make the career worth having
• Develop the people around you so the work outlasts any single project
• Build a career rooted in significance, not just success

Each chapter combines real project stories, hard lessons from failure, and guidance you can put to work this week. No theory. No corporate buzzwords. Just 25 years of field-tested leadership principles from someone who learned most of them the hard way.

Whether you're a project manager, superintendent, owner's representative, or facilities leader, this book provides the framework for building something that lasts longer than any single project.

Because great projects don't start with drawings or schedules. They start with people.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Building Construction People Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798995214212
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg