Andresa GuidelliCEO, The Real Estate InvestHER · Co-Founder

What Most Investors Refuse to Face

16 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker discusses the importance of post‑project debriefs to uncover why contractors often exceed time and budget. Rather than simply blaming the contractor, the speaker urges listeners to examine their own contributions, focusing on three common root causes: unclear expectations, insufficient written communication, and weak management oversight. By identifying the precise origin of the problem—whether it was an unwritten agreement or mismatched assumptions—teams can prevent repeat failures across all business activities.

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You and I talk a lot about when we are debriefing and then we get into the items that didn't work, right? Let's say you hire a contractor, he or she or they were over time and over budget. The easiest thing to do is to blame them and hear me, you might be totally right on that, but that is out of your control. So what we wanna do is to get to the root cause of it, how you contribute to that situation, what can you do differently? So the root cause of the problem many times Many times it's a lack of expectations, lack of clear communication, and lack of clear management. The root cause, it was, oh, I never talked about, oh yeah, we talked about it, but we didn't put in writing. Or you thought A, I thought B, I thought we were thinking about the same thing. You just want to know what exactly caused the issue at first place. Because if you don't know that, it's going to happen over and over again. And if you observe, it's already happening across all different things that you do inside or outside your business, everywhere.