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How to Balance Workplace Friendship with Professionalism
Brief Managers don't have to forgo workplace friendships, but they do need to have boundaries, avoid cliques and rely on "structured social time" such as monthly conversations, writes Brit Booth. "Care about the people you manage, and you'll find out that it's a...
Avoid Getting Blindsided: Turn Your Anagers into Leaders
Brief Some leaders are good at managing up, which obscures the awful ways they're treating their reports, writes Marlene Chism. She offers three areas for executives to monitor, both for the well-being of their organizations and to avoid legal liability. ...
Construction Connections Go Real-time with 5G
Brief The nearly instantaneous speeds offered by 5G technology can be transformative for construction sites, offering real-time, cable-free digital connections and access to highly data-intensive applications. Cradlepoint's James Bristow explores how Taylor...
Old Habits Die Hard, But Good Leaders Can Change
Brief Replace old habits of relentless work, thinking you know more than others, relying on your authority and avoiding risk with new habits of reflection, collaboration, shared power and experimentation, writes leadership development CEO Dede Henley. "To keep up and...
6 Rules for Morning Check-ins that Work
Brief Quick staff meetings at the beginning of each workday can create focus, purpose and an understanding of everyone's challenges and successes, writes Naphtali Hoff. He offers six rules for leaders to create stand-ups that are productive, consistent and help...
Concrete Beam Design: How Concrete Beams React to Being Bent
Brief An engineer must take into account when choosing between balanced concrete, under-reinforced concrete or over-reinforced concrete for a beam to support a building. "In most circumstances, under-reinforced section concrete beams are generally preferred to either...
3 Construction Trends to Watch for in 2021
Brief Construction firms will focus on standardizing prefabrication materials and processes as builds become more complex in 2021, Kenny Ingram writes. Other trends to watch include a growing emphasis on total asset lifecycle responsibility and the use of enterprise...
If You Want to Be A Better Leader, You Must Do This
Brief Self-reflection and regaining your sense of purpose and belonging are what changed the Grinch who stole Christmas -- a lesson leaders could stand to learn, writes Dan Rockwell. "The Grinch hated the Whos because his heart was 2 sizes too small, not because the...
Long-term Study of Bonded Steel Reinforcements on a Concrete Beam Enters 50th Year
Brief Empa engineers are continuing to test a concrete beam built in 1970 with steel reinforcement. After half a decade, the beam is showing no signs of weakness, says engineer Christoph Czaderski. Insight For half a century now, a long-term experiment has...