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  • New Year’s resolutions

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

    Our businesses need the same care we are giving ourselves to remain healthy and viable in the year ahead!

  • What I would be doing if I owned an A/E firm

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

    Firms in this business are quickly sorting themselves into two categories – those that are doing better than ever post-COVID-19, and those that are doing worse.

  • Designing your business to scale

    by The Zweig Letter February 17, 2020
    February 17, 2020

    “If you have lofty ambitions for the growth of your firm, but aren’t exactly sure of what you need to do to accomplish it, here is my best advice.”

  • Undeniable truths

    by The Zweig Letter December 30, 2019
    December 30, 2019

    “There is no question that after working as long as I have in the A/E industry with so many firms throughout the land, certain common undeniable truths present themselves.”

  • Finding and keeping more intrapreneurs

    by The Zweig Letter October 28, 2019
    October 28, 2019

    “Entrepreneurs are not unique to the ownership group of small, privately-held companies. They can also be found working as employees in larger organizations.”

  • Driven to do good: Steve Baldridge

    by The Zweig Letter September 16, 2019
    September 16, 2019

    President of Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, a full-service structural engineering and forensic consulting firm based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

  • Conference call: Mick Gronewold

    by The Zweig Letter September 18, 2017
    September 18, 2017

    Principal at Fehr Graham (Hot Firm #72 for 2016), a 170-person engineering and environmental firm based in Rockford, Illinois. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “If you ain’t falling down, you aren’t…

  • Up the ante

    by The Zweig Letter April 17, 2017
    April 17, 2017

    Open book management is a big card to play, but it puts everyone on your team at the table, and that’s where you want them to be. One of the…

  • Getting people to work more hours

    by The Zweig Letter March 13, 2017
    March 13, 2017

    Zweig Group’s research data shows us that fast growth/high profit firms have a higher number of hours in their average work week. It makes sense – more hours put in…

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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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