Design and Construction Marketplace
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08/31/10
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
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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
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08/31/10
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
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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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08/31/10
Gritty Optimism in the Global Marketplace
Our most recent survey of global professional practice finds there is success to be wrung from exporting services.
James P. Cramer and Jane Gaboury
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06/25/10
The Value of Authenticity
Common businesses practices such as performance appraisals reinforce the cultural standard to conform rather than differ. But conformity is not what leaders are made of.
Louis L. Marines
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06/25/10
Design Leadership and the Environment
These are tough times for the environment. The old solutions don’t work any longer, and there are no simple answers.
James P. Cramer and Jane Gaboury
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06/25/10
It’s a New Decade, But Is There a Difference?
Everyone talks about climate change, increasing energy efficiency, and the impact of buildings. What have been the results?
R.K. Stewart
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06/25/10
Survival-Mode Leadership
Professional services firms require skilled leadership. In a lackluster economy, even greater demands fall on the shoulders of those at the top of the org chart.
Peter Piven
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06/25/10
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Sustainable Growth as Public Policy
If we are going to transform our environment, then political leaders need to become advocates for sustainable planning and design practices. And they’ll become advocates only by hearing from architects and planners.
Mark E. Strauss
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