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Principal at GH2 Architects (Tulsa, OK), an international architecture and design firm founded in 1973 that’s flexible, engaging, and fun.

“Whether or not our businesses survive is going to be up to our response to the problem as leaders. It won’t be easy, but this, too, shall eventually pass.”

If you are within the leadership group of your company, there are times when you may need to purge your leadership team to move forward.

Learn the basics of leadership so you can decide if you’re up to the task. If you are, assess your skills and improve where you can.

“Being a leader means you have to keep growing and learning. We can all change. This includes you!”

Use these five strategies to maximize client relationships without leaving your desk.

If you figure out the big question, it’ll invigorate your culture, differentiate your company, and inform everything you do in your business.

In 20 years as an in-house graphic designer, the lessons learned are simple: Serve the customer, protect the brand, meet the deadlines, and communicate with the client.

“A lot of managers in AEC firms – design and technical people who have become managers – need to learn a few supervisory basics.”

Even if you’re at the lower rungs of the org chart, there are plenty of opportunities for meaningful acts of leadership.

Generational ownership and leadership transitions pose unique challenges. Anyone you promote to the highest level must be cut from the right cloth. The statistics bear repeating: Most professional services firms…