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Creating Smart, Resilient Cities for a Sustainable Future
Several cities across Europe have joined forces to develop and implement transport, digital technology and energy solutions for improving their citizens’ quality of life. The vision to create sustainable urban spaces is becoming a reality in several European cities,...
Can Engineers Build Floating Cities to Save Island Nations?
By some accounts, French Polynesia is heaven on Earth. It’s a collection of 118 tropical islands and atolls spread across a wide expanse of the Pacific. (Perhaps you’ve heard of Tahiti.) And yet, thanks to erosion, land subsidence, and sea level rise, parts of this...
Leading for Maximal Productivity
This is the final post in a series on productivity. Read parts one, two, three and four.Since rolling out my “four-step” productivity plan, I have seen the need to include an added step that focuses on leadership. After all, if we are going to get more from our...
Is ‘Good’ Leadership Different During a Crisis?
The qualities of good leadership often seem more explicit during a crisis. But by understanding these qualities, employers can nurture them and ensure leaders remain effective when business returns to normal, as Duc V. Trang writes. Business leadership teams have...
How States and Employers Can Use Work Sharing to Avoid More Layoffs
An unprecedented 10 million people applied for unemployment insurance across the country over the last two weeks with more likely to come. Many employers are responding to shutdown orders, lack of cash flow, and the crisis by laying people off. Leaders have enacted...
Third Resorts World Worker Tests Positive for Coronavirus in Las Vegas
A third worker at the Resorts World Las Vegas project has tested positive for COVID-19, the developer confirmed Monday, saying construction is expected to continue amid policies that seek to “minimize the risk of transmission.” Project management learned of the most...
Green Building Would Add 30,000 Plants & Trees to Cityscane
The stunning piece of green building architecture you’re looking at here is called the Rainbow Tree Residential Tower, and its architect claims that, once (if?) built, the 377-foot timber tower would bring more than 30,000 new plants, shrubs, and trees to the skyline...
Practical Ways to Lead Yourself During a Crisis
As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, we see that the uncertainty factor can be itself dangerous by causing fear and panic.A leader’s job in times of crisis is all about alignment, and alignment is about focusing energy. To keep everyone else focused, it’s...
It’s Time to Rouse Your Inner Churchill
A friend of mine recommended "The Splendid and the Vile," an intimate portrait of the first year of Winston Churchill’s leadership in the early days of World War II. Given the current circumstances, it occurred to me that it might be a good, perspective-giving read,...