AIA Practice Management

12/28/2018

Here’s another one of those small things you can knock out of the way before the year’s end: Organize your financial documents.

12/26/2018

"Companies and workers are wasting too much time in pointless meetings"

From the archive

12/26/2018

"The workplace is killing people and nobody cares"

From the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours, the modern workplace is taking its toll on all of us.

12/26/2018

7 CEOs share the books that made them better leaders.

Empathy, creativity, honesty - they're all covered in this list.

12/23/2018

Leaders are often put on a pedestal as employees may think they’re smarter or more skilled, adds Jennifer A. Griffith, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the University of New Hampshire. “When we see a leader engaging in or avoiding certain kinds of behavior, we take this as a cue of which behavior is acceptable and may be rewarded,” she says. “As a result, followers may be incentivized to model the behaviors of a toxic leader, creating a widespread toxic environment.”

No one can be a bad boss on their own. Here’s how you might be unknowingly enabling destructive behavior, and what you can do to make a change.

12/19/2018

Why won't architects talk about succession?

Eva Hagberg Fisher on Zaha Hadid's untimely passing, and what happens when a firm's founding partner dies.

12/19/2018

Where Are All the Female Architects? Nearly half of architecture students are women. Why are so few sticking with the industry after graduation?

Nearly half of architecture students are women. Why are so few sticking with the industry after graduation?

12/19/2018

"When a new person joins an organization, regardless of his/her tenure in the profession, his/her ideas need to be heard and welcomed. The longer he or she works with that entity, the more he/she will be influenced by that culture and thinking (some call this “groupthink”). His or her original ideas and creativity may very well have great impact on changing the course of the collective enterprise when allowed to be heard."

What does good leadership look like? Over the years, I have given much thought to the concept of leadership, specifically the contrast between traditional, top down, concentrated leadership and that of a more egalitarian, distributed leadership style often reflective of “flatter” organizations. ...

12/18/2018

When competition between coworkers leads to unethical behavior. (via Harvard Business Review)

12/18/2018

Can an introvert succeed at business development? (Yes, here’s how.)
http://www.friedmanpartners.com/can-introvert-succeed-business-development-yes-heres/

12/17/2018

3 Ways Senior Leaders Create a Toxic Culture (via Harvard Business Review)

Whether presiding over the entire company, a function, a region, or a business unit, the people at the top of an organization have a disproportionate level of influence over those they lead.

12/17/2018

Evaluating the effectiveness of executive coaching: Beyond ROI?

The popularity of executive coaching has increased dramatically in both the practitioner world and academia during the past decade. However, evaluating the effectiveness of coaching has lagged...