One of the things my clients hire me to do is to help them facilitate leadership retreats and assist with the most important element – the conclusion of the retreat and the agreements reached. You know how much work goes into pulling together a team of firm leaders, fine-tuning the agenda, and then running the…
I was reading an article about non-collaborative senior management teams, and why that is such a problem for professional services firms. It is so easy for professional services firms to become siloed with all the pressures to build a solid market practice, geographical foothold and turn a profit for the firm. One of the key…
Reading an article by Sam Grobart in Bloomberg Businessweek entitled Robot Workers: Coexistence Is Possible (December 2012, ) about human workers loosing out to robots. He discusses the many things that a robot simply cannot do. That got me thinking about the changes that the AEC industry is going through with new technologies and programs…