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Steve Bechtel

Steve Bechtel

Rock climber and coach

Jul 21, 2026

10:38
I wonder if you have observations about things that you've tried that have been successful or you found helpful.
10:45
I think that in my opinion, there's been a few things that we've done that's worked really well for us.
10:51
The first thing was bringing teams together early before decisions were made.
10:55
So for instance, for an example, we have our advanced planning documents, our APD teams.
11:03
A lot of that was being handled by IT and without including budget, which is, you know, that's very problematic because not only do you, you know, it's not about just getting the federal funds, but do I have the state appropriations in my state budget to, to operate what you all are wanting to do? And so, so we identified that area, that area, and we thought, well, we need to make a change.
11:26
And so now we get together as a team before any decisions are made and that builds on a shared ownership and, and, uh, kind of avoids the necessity of duplicative work.
11:39
The other thing is creating that source of truth.

6 MINS LATER

17:40
Also, how would you expand on what Veronica said earlier?

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