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Is your firm one that commands top fees and thrives, or one that will struggle to compete and keep up? As I have stated many times before, I’ve spent my entire 45 year post-graduate school career working in and around AEC firms. Big ones, small ones, all disciplines, growing and declining, profitable and unprofitable –…
When it comes to business – more specifically the AEC business – there are certain things that people say or do that are rarely ever questioned. We just do them because they are generally accepted as good practice and “normal.” The problem is entrepreneurship is all about seeing and doing things differently from everyone else. So maybe…
Last week I solo hiked 55 of the 700 miles of trails in Glacier National Park in Montana. The backcountry is wild, unpredictable, and beautiful. It always occurs to me that there are many parallels to how the wild open spaces relate to the nature of business. Below are some of the take-aways I can…
Today, the National Small Business Association (NSBA) is releasing a new survey on how COVID-19 is impacting America’s small businesses and what they anticipate in the coming months ahead. The survey shows modest improvements in small-business confidence and economic outlook, and a lower overall impact of the pandemic. “Despite these gains in outlook, COVID-19 continues…
