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  • The new realities of business

    by The Zweig Letter October 4, 2020
    October 4, 2020

    Current world events are changing the way we value everything. This pandemic highlights the need for collaborative and equitable decision-making between leadership and staff.

  • Unconscious bias

    by The Zweig Letter August 3, 2020
    August 3, 2020

    Educating yourself about these biases as well as potential strategies for mitigation can help you avoid prejudice in your decision-making.

  • Seeking excellence: Jason Pereira

    by The Zweig Letter June 15, 2020
    June 15, 2020

    Co-founder and principal at CWE (Fullerton, CA), a  civil engineering, water resources, and environmental engineering firm whose experts pledge to create a better tomorrow, today.

  • Leadership in action

    by The Zweig Letter May 11, 2020
    May 11, 2020

    Communication, decentralized decision-making, and rapid assessment and implementation are key, in both disaster response and your business.

  • Give your people common cents

    by The Zweig Letter May 4, 2020
    May 4, 2020

    Make your business more sustainable and build a loyal team by training your people to manage themselves and their projects the way you would.

  • How to say no

    by The Zweig Letter March 2, 2020
    March 2, 2020

    Leading a successful organization takes the courage to try new ideas, weather many storms, and know how to say no.

  • Making timely decisions

    by The Zweig Letter July 15, 2019
    July 15, 2019

    “Are you making decisions as quickly as you should, or is this a problem that you keep facing over and over again? Just like all problems in this business, there’s always something you can do!”

  • Youthful exuberance

    by The Zweig Letter February 18, 2019
    February 18, 2019
    In the early rush to make our names in the AEC business, we often overlook the basic building blocks for a great career. As a younger engineer, I occasionally spent…
  • Doing things the way you should to be successful

    by The Zweig Letter November 12, 2018
    November 12, 2018
    When you look at principals of firms in this business who are really happy and successful – who have growing, profitable companies – you’ll see certain common traits that emerge.…
  • TZL podcast: Mark Zweig and why speed is everything

    by The Zweig Letter July 20, 2018
    July 20, 2018
    In this episode of The Zweig Letter podcast Randy Wilburn sits down with Mark Zweig to talk about the importance of speed and why those who move the fastest will win most…
  • Speed is everything

    by The Zweig Letter June 25, 2018
    June 25, 2018
    I’ve written about it before but apparently not everyone got the message. In business today, speed is everything. Whoever is faster will be the winner. Good leaders realize this is…
  • The litmus test for decision making

    by The Zweig Letter March 12, 2018
    March 12, 2018
    If you’ve ever actually done a litmus test you know that one of the best things about it is that it’s fast. Dip the paper in the solution or put…
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The Zweig Letter is a truly unique management newsletter. Each week, The Zweig Letter keeps A/E and environmental services firm leaders informed, inspired, entertained, and challenged. Every 12-page issue of The Zweig Letter leads off with a hard-hitting editorial from management guru, Mark Zweig. Mark is radical, sensible, and thought-provoking with a dose of humor, to boot. A/E and environmental services firms are not like other businesses, so The Zweig Letter only reports on management ideas that are proven to work in firms like yours.

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