Leading Yourself: Overcoming Leadership Blind Spots
by Christine Cowan-Gascoigne, MBA, MSSA, LISW
Effective leaders exhibit a high level of consistency between words and actions. Our ability to lead others is linked inextricably to our ability to lead ourselves.
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Leading Your Client
by Stephen T. Swicegood, FAIA
Stephen Swicegood describes the behaviors essential to effective leadership and how these behaviors relate to client leadership.
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Leading Your Project Team: An Emerging Project Leadership Model
by James M. Suehiro, AIA, LEED AP
To meet the need for faster project delivery and greater accuracy, and to improve opportunities for more sustainable construction, a transformed project delivery model is required. As this transformation evolves, the need for highly integrated, highly effective and highly responsive teams increases.
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Leading Your Firm
by Hugh Hochberg
In an architecture firm, the path to becoming an effective firm leader means striking a reasonable balance among roles and activities that sometimes conflict.
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Leading Your Profession
by Andrea Cohen Gehring, FAIA, LEED AP
As a leader, you provide a valuable service to the profession. Help to keep it vital by promoting interaction and the exchange of ideas, and serve as a valuable example and mentor to young colleagues.
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Leading Your Community
by Ambassador Richard N. Swett, FAIA
An architect's unique set of problem solving skills, creativity, and understanding of collaborative processes can truly make a difference in our communities and in larger society.
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Letter From the Editor
Guest editor Robert P. Smith, AIA, discusses how this issue of the Digest addresses the multiple dimensions of leadership.
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2008 AIA Practice Management Fall Conference
Chicago, IL
October 14 - 17, 2008
Call For Presentations
The focus of the 2008 AIA Practice Management conference will be Leveraging Your Resources. This conference will provide tangible resources and take-home tools, using actual spreadsheets, databases, and management skills created through hands-on sessions and workshops. These tools will be geared toward small and mid-sized firms but will be scaleable for the larger firm platform. Additional details will be posted on the PMKC website.


AIA Practice Management at National Convention
The PMKC will have a strong presence at the 2008 AIA National Convention. We encourage you to select your continuing educational opportunities wisely by looking for the most appropriate classes. Here are just a few that touch on the many aspects of Practice Management:

WE59 Managing Design: An Oxymoron for the Ages?
WE13 Project Finance for Project Managers and Managing Principals
WE12 Do It Yourself Quality Management: An Architect's Workshop to Implementing Quality Management
WE56 Presenting with Conviction, Confidence, and Clarity: How to Persuade Clients to Hire You
FR62 A Workforce of Tethered Millennials: Hiring the Next Generation
SA46 Leveraging Your Resources: AIA Practice Management Seminar and Luncheon