The average employee walks into an office building and assumes everything just works.
The lights come on. The elevators run. Their desk is where it was yesterday. To them, the building simply works.
But buildings don’t just work. What they never see is the machinery behind it. Behind every functioning office is an invisible system of decisions, negotiations, policies, vendors, contractors, budgets, and people trying to keep thousands of moving parts from colliding.
That’s what this book series is about. It’s about the unseen world behind office buildings, school campuses, and corporate parks—the negotiations that happen before a lease is signed, the planning behind a simple office move, and the construction meetings where budgets, schedules, and personalities collide.
Over the years, I came to call that machinery ‘the beast.’ This book series is a look at what it’s like coming “From the Belly of the Beast.”
