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Leadership

  • Serving others: Mike Schnaare

    by The Zweig Letter February 21, 2021
    February 21, 2021

    By Liisa Andreassen | President of Lawrence Group (St. Louis, MO), an integrated design, development, and construction firm using the power of people with great ideas to bring clients’ dreams to life.

  • Navigating operations during global crisis

    by The Zweig Letter February 21, 2021
    February 21, 2021

    By Patrick Schultz | Achieve resilient, sustainable operations while navigating an unprecedented global pandemic and addressing complex disruptions.

  • Authentic: Jeff Schumaker

    by The Zweig Letter February 14, 2021
    February 14, 2021

    By Liisa Andreassen | President of Fishbeck (Grand Rapids, MI), a firm of engineers, scientists, architects, and constructors in the business of problem solving, inspiring results, and bringing ideas to life.

  • Put that ego aside

    by The Zweig Letter February 14, 2021
    February 14, 2021

    By Mark Zweig | This is essential if you want to build a good firm of competent people who can keep the business going whether you’re there or not.

  • Advancing women in the AEC workplace

    by The Zweig Letter February 7, 2021
    February 7, 2021

    A conversation about how improving gender representation in the workplace benefits everyone and how the AEC industry has evolved regarding women professionals.

  • We can do better

    by The Zweig Letter January 31, 2021
    January 31, 2021

    By Stephen Lucy | In the past year, we’ve learned a great deal about how we can do better and have begun to seize opportunities created by 2020.

  • Recognizing and developing future leaders

    by The Zweig Letter January 31, 2021
    January 31, 2021

    By Frank Johnson | Be deliberate in identifying those who have the potential to grow into leadership roles, and help them develop the skill sets they need to be successful as future managers.

  • Why have an employee resource group?

    by The Zweig Letter January 24, 2021
    January 24, 2021

    By Wendy Culver | ERGs to get your people involved to make changes from the heart of your organization, rather than being imposed from the top down.

  • Be a better A/E firm leader in 2021

    by The Zweig Letter January 24, 2021
    January 24, 2021

    By Mark Zweig | The leadership abilities of you firm’s principals and managers will determine your collective success this year.

  • Stay organized amid information overload

    by The Zweig Letter January 24, 2021
    January 24, 2021

    By Kim Fowler | If you chip away at your organization goals one task at a time, you will begin to see the benefits.

  • Keeping your firm ‘ready to sell’

    by The Zweig Letter January 17, 2021
    January 17, 2021

    By John Bray | Approachable steps you can take to prepare for a potential acquisition down the road, and why it’s never a bad idea to take them.

  • Extrinsic motivation

    by The Zweig Letter January 17, 2021
    January 17, 2021

    By Mitchell Shope | Leveraging reinforcement theory will connect the action to the reward and bolster your firm’s morale and cultural identity.

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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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