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age, in the year 2000, is probably between 7 and 9 percent, but then, what firm is average? The most accurate method, goal-based ...

exercises allow you to evaluate your return on investment. Create a “hit rate” report that tracks your success from proposal to ...

The community at large is also your audience. You have an opportunity to be known by people who are not part of the design and c ...

cost between $4,000 and $15,000 in our world (and that does not include the national business magazines, where a page may run up ...

bility. If you are taking the time to research and write an article, find the opportunity to speak about it, too. Professional o ...

vision to include theirs. You will not only design a better facility; you will help them reach their goals. And in doing so, rea ...

CHAPTER 190  Te am Dynamics JON R. KATZENBACH TRACI A. ENTEL KAREN MAHONY Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Cl ...

B Both the sole designer and the design team are legendary parts of the professional landscape of design. However, there is a th ...

EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT TEAMS—RIGHT? Many management booksMany management books have been written stressing the need for teams and ...

leave and work permits would have expired. Together the affected parties solved the problem, which at the outset had seemed insu ...

team opportunities. One designer described being involved with a long-term hospital design project and discovering that she was ...

leads to a real team effort. The differentiating factor is that collective per- formance is the primary objective, not “becoming ...

Throughout our development, we are instilled with a strong sense of individual responsibility through our parents, teachers, and ...

discover their living room furniture completely rearranged, or even dis- carded, to match his own vision of the room.^3 This ind ...

developed sense of humor is often seen in top-performing teams as it helped them to deal with the pressures and intensity of hig ...

team performance. Focusing on performance rather than personal chemistry or togetherness will shape teams more than any other fa ...

of the work. Recognizing the importance of the roles of each party is the pri- mary enabler for a real team opportunity. Hugh Fe ...

The surest first step for a team trying to shape a common purpose mean- ingful to its members is to transform broad directives i ...

lenging, interpreting, supporting, and summarizing. These roles help to pro- mote the mutual trust and constructive conflict nec ...

marked contrast to a team, which strives for magnified impact that is greater than the sum of each individual’s role. The choice ...