Leadership

People need something to rally behind. Identifying a mission for your firm is more than just a box to check when creating a strategic plan.

As a 100 percent ESOP, 50-year-old Pennoni has the culture, history, and staying power to improve the lives of its employees and the community it serves.

President and CEO of LACO (Best Firm Multi-discipline #46 for 2018), a California firm with a famously branded shirt.

“This was the fourth or fifth time since 1997 that Zweig Group has done one of these events coupled with a racing school. They always get me thinking.”

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

If you’re like the rest of us, your firm is busy. But as the projects and revenue pour in, so do plenty of problems that you’ll have to deal with.

At what should be an incredibly productive and exciting time in the lives of young professionals, the AEC industry is failing to engage.

“Why do people lose interest in their own businesses and, perhaps more importantly, what can you do to keep this from happening?”

“It’s a debate that’s been ongoing for years in our industry, thanks in no small part to the popularity of Good to Great, an academic study of huge, publicly-traded corporations and other organizations.”

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

A firm leader must break out of the deadline cycle and make a meaningful connection with employees. If not, performance will (predictably) suffer. Most of what we do today as…

We might not pitch and catch over nine innings for a living, but we can learn a lot from what happens out on the diamond.