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Lessons Learned

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Decentralization

    by The Zweig Letter January 10, 2021
    January 10, 2021

    By Phil Keil | Decentralization of structure within our firms allows for a more agile, adaptable, and unified organization.

  • Increasing your firm’s retention

    by The Zweig Letter December 13, 2020
    December 13, 2020

    Positively impact your firm’s retention rates by turning abstract ideas into actionable goals.

  • Remote work lessons learned

    by The Zweig Letter November 8, 2020
    November 8, 2020

    Firms are discovering new ways of operating that will allow them to be more effective and efficient throughout the rest of the pandemic and after.

  • Outgoing and incoming

    by The Zweig Letter July 6, 2020
    July 6, 2020

    Ownership transition can be an eight to 10 year process, so start early, educate yourself, define your goals, and keep an open dialogue with your employees.

  • TZL podcast: Chris Huckabee’s lessons during the pandemic inform the future of design firms

    by The Zweig Letter June 3, 2020
    June 3, 2020

    Chris Huckabee, CEO of Huckabee and Associates, talks about how his architectural firm has learned to quickly evolve over the past few months during the pandemic.

  • Talk it out

    by The Zweig Letter April 27, 2020
    April 27, 2020

    By Jamie Claire Kiser | Lessons learned from conversations with industry leaders about separation anxiety, empowerment, and calm confidence.

  • Lessons learned

    by The Zweig Letter November 11, 2019
    November 11, 2019

    Trust your judgement, speak up, and keep learning. Your efforts will pay dividends down the road.

  • Early lessons from the past

    by The Zweig Letter June 17, 2019
    June 17, 2019

    “Years ago, I worked for an A/E firm in Memphis by the name of Pickering, Wooten, Smith and Weiss. My boss was Don Smith and my mentor was Irving Weiss. Both of them taught me a lot about this business.”

  • Lessons I have recently learned

    by The Zweig Letter September 11, 2017
    September 11, 2017

    It’s always good to periodically take stock and ask yourself what you have recently learned. My experience – if you don’t do this – is that you are bound to…

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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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