High-Agency Leadership·
Cognitive Empathy — Knowing Your WHO
In the AEC industry, you're really in the communication business
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Your Craft Your Climb
Articles on Leadership for AEC Firms
Writings on business craft, leadership, and the climb.
High-Agency Leadership·
What Redlines (and Corrections) Cost — Fixing Mistakes or Making One?
The hidden price of winning small debates with your team
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High-Agency Leadership·
Experts vs. “Experts” — Evaluating Each
How to know whose input you can actually depend on
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High-Agency Leadership·
Utilization Rate — Faking the Wag
Why a metric anyone can fake makes a poor target for AEC firms
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High-Agency Leadership·
Right People, Right Seats... Until It Comes to Mentorship?
Why internal mentorship programs often fall flat
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Guideposts·
Battle of the Sexes and Generational Divides
How to avoid being generally right but specifically wrong when making decisions about people.
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Guideposts·
How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Own Business
Trade activity for assets — and let your business outgrow your bandwidth
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Guideposts·
A Better Framework for Business Decision Making
Not all decisions are created equal
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Guideposts·
Building Company Culture That Actually Works
Why culture is a story — and how to tell one worth following
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Guideposts·
How to Motivate Employees (Hint: You Probably Can’t)
Stop fueling the machine — start designing the conditions
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Guideposts·
What Makes a Good (Business) Leader?
A practitioner's take on business leadership
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Guideposts·
Mental Models and First Principles Thinking
A strategic thinking guide for leaders of small and mid-sized businesses
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Book Preview·
Vantage Points
People Aren't as Crazy as We'd Like to Assume
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Book Preview·
Levers of Control
The Four That Control Any Business
The question isn't whether a business is pulling each of these levers, but how? Every business is working with four variables: Energy, Unify, Resistance, and Yield.
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