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Is Leadership for You?
It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about riding a bike or making a Hollandaise sauce or leading a team. Everything looks easy until you try to do it. You can learn a lot about leadership by observing good leaders and watching what they do. You can spend time thinking...
Better Than Right: Turning Mistakes into an Advantage
ürgen Klopp, head coach of soccer team Liverpool FC, and recently voted FIFA’s Best Coach of 2019, likes to tell a story about motivating his players ahead of an important match. He showed them movie clips from Rocky IV of Rocky Balboa preparing to take on Ivan Drago....
Will AI and Generative Design Steal our Engineering Jobs?
In our current state, artificial intelligence and generative design are some of the most exciting advances in engineering technology. However, should we be fearing that our jobs as engineers and designers can quickly be stolen? Are robots the new engineers? Having...
Losing a Great Employee? Here’s Your Best Chance at Retaining Them
Exceptional leaders depend on great teams, and great teams are full of great people, which is why it’s so painful when one of your strong contributors decides to leave. This can be demoralizing and made worse if their departure catches you unprepared. Is it possible...
change Management Communication: 5 Step Planning Guide
Organizations going through change naturally focus on the project being implemented – what has to be done by when to complete the action plan. They often don’t give as much thought to what people need to do differently to achieve the desired results. Yet most...
How Great Leaders Control Their Ego
Everybody has an ego, and a healthy ego is necessary for success in leadership or any field. You need to have faith in yourself and your abilities, and when you’re trying to achieve something difficult, it serves you well to have that voice in your head saying “You’re...
Raise the Visibility of Your Most Overlooked Talent
Improve Retention: Want to spend more time on your business and less time in talent search? Want to invest fewer dollars in bringing new employees up to speed? You need to improve your retention. But how? Across the board, studies show that all generations --...
From High-rise to Low-rise? Judge Orders NYC Tower Cut Down to Size
200 Amsterdam, by Elkus Manfredi Architects, is a residential skyst craper thareaches a maximum height of 668 ft (203.6 m) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. However, this may not be the case for much longer, as a State Supreme Court judge has declared that it mtially...
Is It Possible to Recycle Concrete?
Having been utilized as early as the Roman era in buildings of almost every scale, it is almost impossible to think of a building that does not have at least one concrete element. In fact, it is the most widely used construction material in the world, due to its...