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7 Personal Challenges that Can Improve Your Leadership
Brief To challenge yourself is to try something new, scale up your skill set or explore "new attitudes, behaviors, skills, and practices," writes Dan Rockwell. "Advancement begins at the point of discomfort, when you try something you haven't done," Rockwell adds....
Architects Benefit from Data-driven Work
Brief Daniel Davis, a senior researcher at Hassell, writes that architects can take a data-led approach by using BIM data and other data. "Firms need to begin actively gathering data, they need to address the cultural issues that make the industry unappealing to...
AI, Cloud Technology to Bolster BIM this Year
Brief Building information modeling will continue to benefit from advances in artificial intelligence this year, while digital twins will improve accuracy and help reduce costs, Lydia Bamford writes. Cloud technology will also play a big role in BIM implementation,...
4 Ways Companies Can Normalize Employee Mental Health
Brief Companies should reset their relationship with employee mental health in terms of policies, culture and training, writes Zhike Lei, director of the Center for Applied Research at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. "Leaders must pay close attention to how...
Cool Pavements can Mitigate Climate Change
Brief Cool pavements offer not only a more pleasant urban climate in the summer but can also have other benefits, according to Randolph Kirchain, a principal research scientist at MIT's Concrete Sustainability Hub. The light reflected into nearby buildings may reduce...
2 Ways Managers can Effectively Lead Generation Z
Brief Middle managers can be better leaders for younger generations, including Generation Z, by being communicative, "patient and flexible" even as you establish clear expectations and standards, writes Mike Monroe of Vector Marketing. "View yourself as the face of...
Why Some Ideas will Always Remain Small
Brief Some ideas that find small-scale success won't scale because they have fatal flaws, rely on rare or unique human traits or cause unexpected effects that mitigate the benefits, writes Lyft Chief Economist John List. "For an enterprise to hold strong at scale,...
Engineered Aggregates Could Improve Self-healing Concrete
Brief Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a computational model to determine the ideal shapes and sizes of engineered aggregates for self-healing concrete while minimizing the volume fraction of the healing agent. Self-healing concrete...
Is Email Killing Your Time? Reclaim It with These Tips
Brief Email can become a de facto to-do list hanging over your head, and the long-term solution is to rethink your email habits, writes Robin Copple. "Your mission moving forward: have email be a resource you parse through in the morning, and check periodically but...