Aug 11, 2026 · 33 min · 12 segments
"If nobody can name the last stop that cost real money, you do not have stop work authority. You have a slogan." This week Dr. Logan F. Martin and James Junkin mark Episode 150 by going back to where…
James JunkinHost
Logan F. MartinHost
James, today I wanna tie this back to our initial episode, episode number one.
They love their programs, they love their policies, but they never make it off of paper.
But I, the w- the way that I thought we could tie it in today is to take something that pretty much lives on paper, doesn't have an engineering control.
Uh, it, it basically, it- it either works or it doesn't, and we're gonna explore some reasons why it works and why it doesn't.
I put it on an article on LinkedIn, um, that kinda is a companion to this, and that, that program is stop work authority.
Everybody, everybody likes to say it, everybody likes to put it in their paper, um, their policies, et cetera, but what does it actually mean and how does it actually get implemented in a good way? So before we do that, James, what do you got from Rip from the Headlines?
James, today I wanna tie this back to our initial episode, episode number one.
They love their programs, they love their policies, but they never make it off of paper.
But I, the w- the way that I thought we could tie it in today is to take something that pretty much lives on paper, doesn't have an engineering control.
Uh, it, it basically, it- it either works or it doesn't, and we're gonna explore some reasons why it works and why it doesn't.
I put it on an article on LinkedIn, um, that kinda is a companion to this, and that, that program is stop work authority.
Everybody, everybody likes to say it, everybody likes to put it in their paper, um, their policies, et cetera, but what does it actually mean and how does it actually get implemented in a good way? So before we do that, James, what do you got from Rip from the Headlines?
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