Human Resources

07/26/05 Transitions (July 2005)
07/26/05 8 to 5 Office Time No Longer Applies One afternoon early in my career, I was in my office when I noticed one of my direct reports coming back from lunch around 2:30 p.m. As I approached, I noticed he had been to the barber. I asked if he was just coming back from lunch and the barber shop. He responded in the affirmative. I looked at him quizzically, hesitated, frowned—then raised my eyebrows and said. “You got your hair cut on company time?” Williston Dye, AIA
03/21/05 Footnotes on Compensation Trends From the 2005 Architecture Compensation Survey.
03/21/05 Architectecture Compensation Survey: By the Numbers Significant numbers and facts from our architecture compensation survey.
03/21/05 The Future Demands Meritocracy: Reward Your Top Performers Architecture, engineering, and design firms spend more than $20 billion in the U.S. alone on salaries and benefits. All too often we pay the same salary for very different levels of talent—and service. James P. Cramer
03/21/05 Navigating the Most Complex Human Resource Dilemmas It’s time to evolve the “Human Sacrifice Department” into “Human Prosperity Department” within the architectural firm. Williston Dye, AIA
07/12/04 Design Talent no Longer White, Male, Middle-Aged Not only are the times a-changin’, so is the workforce. While this is true for virtually every industry, many AEC firms believe that our industry is at the leading edge of a dramatic change in the AEC workforce. Jacqueline Rast
03/15/04 How to Develop and Lead a Great Firm Experiment with these practices, expand your knowledge of them; surround yourself with smart and dynamic people who practice them… Lucinda Ludwig
03/15/04 ASD Harmonizes Architecture, Interiors Here is [ASD] vice president Michael Neiswander’s comments on how to make the chemistry work and philosophies blend:
02/15/04 Bank on Your Time and See Return in Value Time is the essence of your life. If you waste your time, you waste your potential. Each day has 24 hours. That’s 1,440 minutes. It is 86,400 seconds. No more. No less. You cannot borrow an hour from yesterday.

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