Schedule a meeting – with yourself for 2 hours during a time of day when you are most effective. For me, that is first thing in the morning. I would not stay home or go to my office, as either place is full of people that need you in some way. Instead I would…
Danny Meyer, the CEO of Union Square Hospitality, participated in an Inc. Magazine Founders Forum with Scott Gerber and he talked about the fact that innovation has a very short shelf life and that good ideas will quickly be replicated by copy cats. But what he stressed was the safe guard against copy cats and…
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…
In the process of cleaning and organizing my office recently, I was amazed at some of the things I came across – old ideas, notes I wanted to remember, articles that inspired me, etc. I launched a new section in my file cabinet – IDEAS. Since starting my own firm, I try to bring fresh…