Best Practices

01/03/11 Century of the City Cities and regions that are able to adapt to rapid change will have a competitive advantage over their peers in staying relevant for the long haul. Aaron M. Renn
01/03/11 Conscripted Collaboration Smart managers embrace this horror: What most likely makes a project successful is the thing they control the least. Ken Bishop
11/03/10 1 100 Days at a Time The Fentress CEO worked through a series of 100-day plans to set goals, see results, and assess steps on the journey to building a next-generation company. Agatha Kessler
11/03/10 1 Collaborative Project Delivery: Better Than IPD? Remarkable results can be produced when a team insists on an integrated process regardless of whether the policy of collaboration is accompanied by shared legal risk. Aran A. McCarthy
11/03/10 1 Three R’s for the New Economy: Reposition, Redevelop, Regenerate With new construction scarce, repositioning, redevelopment, and regeneration are gaining interest from — and providing benefits to — owners and architects as well as communities. Ernest Hutton, Mark Strauss, and Stephen Whitehouse
08/31/10 1 From the Ground Up: Growing a Thriving Design Firm You can read a library of management titles, but success largely boils down to internalizing and implementing five key practices. James Follett
08/31/10 Design Goes Global Over the next several decades, billions of square feet of new construction and renovations will take place worldwide. Is international practice right for your firm? Scott Simpson
08/31/10 1 Sharpening the Ax: Preparing for Negotiations It seems counterintuitive, but negotiation preparation can bring a substantially higher return on investment than actual project work does. So it pays — literally — to give the process its due. Steven J. Isaacs and Karen L. Newcombe
08/31/10 Aging in Tandem: America and its Infrastructure Lack of stewardship over our public works has dealt the current generation a huge challenge. Without imagination and conviction in addressing this problem, the viability of the United States is threatened. Barbara Golter Heller
08/31/10 Leading with Exuberance Projects designed and built with adversarial teams are rarely successful. But building owners can aid collaboration by setting the tone for a project — one that is clear, consistent, and cooperative. Barbara White Bryson and Canan Yetmen

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