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How Character and Vision Drive Leadership Success
Brief Having a personal vision and a well-defined set of values that make up your character can help you better navigate the ethical dilemmas that arise in day-to-day leadership, writes Jared Harris, an associate professor at the University of Virginia's Darden...
6 Steps to Replace Bad Leadership Habits with Good Ones
Brief End bad leadership habits by identifying them and their triggers, making a plan with a deadline, deciding what good habits you'll develop to replace them and enlisting the help of others, writes Lolly Daskal. "Other people automatically bring accountability,...
Is Finland’s Wood City the Future of Building?
Brief It smells like a lush pine forest in the lunch room of a new upper secondary school in Helsinki, but there's no scented air freshener.Instead, most of the five-storey building has been constructed out of wood. Insight It smells like a lush pine forest in...
How to Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower
Brief Headway is an initiative from The New York Times exploring the world’s challenges through the lens of progress. We look for promising solutions, notable experiments and lessons from what’s been tried. Insight When the Dutch National Bank moved into its...
10 Signs Your Home Has Foundation Problems
Brief The foundation can shift, sink, crack, buckle, or deteriorate, resulting in serious structural problems that can leave your home vulnerable to flooding, insect infestations, or in extreme circumstances, the home may even collapse. insight The foundation...
Why the Best Leaders are Those Who Never Stop Learning
Brief The best leaders are those who always seek to learn more from their customers and their employees so they can develop both their teamwork skills and knowledge on how to handle conflicts and challenges, writes Kevin Kehoe, co-founder of Aspire Software....
Lead with Abundance to Build Team Trust
Brief Leaders with an abundance mindset celebrate the achievements of others and look for the "win-win" situation while still upholding high standards, writes McKinlee Covey. "In fact, abundant-minded leaders tend to achieve more in the long-run because they are...
A look at Changes in Seismic Diaphragm Design
Brief Major changes to the seismic design of diaphragms and their chords and collectors are contained in the 2022 edition of the ASCE/SEI standard "Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures." Kelly Cobeen gives a rundown of the...
Waterproof Your Building without Polluting the Planet
Brief Waterproofing is one of those underappreciated building materials that very few people think about until it fails to do its job of keeping water and moisture out.It is an essential component of a structure, as water is a highly destructive element when it gets...