We’ve all heard the adage “the best way to get somewhere is a straight line,” but author Rich Christiansen suggests otherwise. Christiansen is an entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded more than 30 businesses. Some of them were colossal failures, others were multi-million-dollar successes.

Julie Ertz, a member of the USWNT’s back-to-back World Cup-winning teams, shares her experiences from chasing her dream of being a professional soccer player, and the themes translate for all goal-pursuers – soccer and otherwise.

Whether a first date, a parent-teacher conference or a meeting with a potential client, the time you spend engaging with people can be intimidating and leave you wondering about the type of impression you make. Vanessa Van Edwards takes the guesswork out of such interactions

Loom is a useful tool to help your team communicate, simplify, and document everyday tasks by recording whatever is happening on your screen and sharing it.

Whether you call it internal marketing, marketing mentality, or creating a culture of rainmakers, it’s a straightforward concept critical to the AEC industry: Training and motivating client-contact employees and support staff to work as a team to ensure client satisfaction.

Business leaders who'd like to move from good to great will find inspiration in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't.

Find the best day and time for your next AEC team meeting or proposal kickoff! Doodle can be helpful with coordinating your AEC marketing and business development teams, architects, engineers and contractor colleagues.  Doodle allows users to schedule meetings seamlessly or choose their favorite options in a group without the back and forth of a group text.

Harvey MacKay’s timeless book, Swim With The Sharks, provides many practical solutions for the potentially dangerous waters of the business world.

Focus Engineering & Surveying’s company culture embraces and encourages continuing education. Owner Ron Paul selected Extreme Ownership based on its principles and concepts, and the entire company is now reading it together.

“The research that this book is based on is so applicable to both marketing and technical staff for professional services firms,” explains Keri Hammond, FSMPS, CPSM, “It is specifically written for individuals at professional service firms that want to become a rainmaker.”