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Succession; Preparing Your Firm’s “Next You”
May 22, 2023
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Fraud & Embezzlement—Coming Soon to a Firm Near You; Get Better at Deciding
May 15, 2023
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An Industry and a Firm in Beta Mode—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?; Four Things That Make Difficult Conversations Difficult
May 8, 2023
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How to Be a Pro in a World Full of Rookies; 5 Business Lessons from a Pagani Factory Tour
May 1, 2023
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Getting Connected and Connecting the Dots in Las Vegas; You Know, Some of Your Websites Aren’t So Bad (Part 3 of 3)
April 24, 2023
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The Outsiders—Quantity and Quality Check; You Know, Some of Your Websites Aren’t So Bad (Part 2 of 3)
April 17, 2023
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Who Is the Industry’s Most Innovative Acquirer?; You Know, Some of Your Websites Aren’t So Bad
April 10, 2023
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Why It Pays to Be an Under-Performing Firm; Section 174—Having Fun Yet?
April 3, 2023
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Miami Highlight Reel
March 27, 2023
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When Opportunity Knocks
March 20, 2023
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Let’s Make a Deal in 2023
March 13, 2023
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The (Mostly) Unstoppable AE Industry
March 6, 2023
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Old School
February 27, 2023
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The Acquisition That Changes Everything
February 21, 2023
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Announcing the Excellence in Acquisitive Growth Awards Series
February 12, 2023
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The State of Industry Consolidation
February 6, 2023
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Where Raises and Bonuses Are Headed in 2023
January 30, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence—First- and Second-Order Effects for the AE Industry
January 23, 2023
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All Gas, No Brakes, and Big, Big Raises
January 17, 2023
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Does 2023 Herald a Return of the “Old” Normal?
January 9, 2023
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Predictions for 2023
December 18, 2022
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Words of Wisdom
December 11, 2022
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Going Global—World Cup Edition
December 4, 2022
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Requiem for a Firm—A Timeline of Decline
November 28, 2022
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Think the Future Is Unknowable? Think Again.
November 19, 2022
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A (Mostly) Blowout Third Quarter Full of Double-Digit Growth
November 13, 2022
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Inside the Pressure Cooker of the Overwhelmed AE Manager
November 6, 2022
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From Great to Good
October 30, 2022
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Here’s Who’s Running the AE Industry—By the Numbers
October 23, 2022
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A Texas-Sized “Thank You” to Houston
October 17, 2022
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Who exactly is running the AE industry?
October 9, 2022
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Under-performers get punished in the M&A market
October 3, 2022
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Eight Magic 8 Ball Questions for the Fall
September 26, 2022
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When Considering Your Strategic Options, Specificity Is Your Friend
September 19, 2022
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The Summer’s End
September 11, 2022
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The CEO’s Diary: August 29, 2032, Reflections on the past decade
August 29, 2022
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It’s a Small World After All (and consolidating quickly)
August 22, 2022
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Selling your firm? It’s time for an out-of-body experience
August 15, 2022
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VAPID—What your videoconference style says about you
August 8, 2022
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Inside the Mind of the CEO (Dog Days of Summer Edition)
August 1, 2022
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The Secret Wants & Needs of Design Firms & PE/FO
July 25, 2022
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A Hybrid Hell Of Flexible Half Measures
July 18, 2022
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The Questions Raised By The Gloriously Heterogeneous AE Industry Of 2022
July 11, 2022
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Four Ungrounded Assumptions Prevalent In The AE Industry Today
June 27, 2022
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Backlogs to the Rescue?
June 21, 2022
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From Steinbeck To Shakespeare: Seven Takeaways From Our Western States Symposium
June 13, 2022
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Irrational Exuberance?
June 6, 2022
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Pardon The Disruption
May 23, 2022
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An Rx For Floundering Founder’s Syndrome
May 16, 2022
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AE Industry Recode: 500-15-90-174
May 9, 2022
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The Domino Effect
May 2, 2022
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Rumors
April 25, 2022
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Strategy Rethink — How To Win In The West
April 18, 2022
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Sixteen Candles, Sixteen Lessons
April 11, 2022
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Into The Great Wide Open—the Infinite Workforce
April 4, 2022
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Acceleration — Seven Takeaways From Our Southeast States M&A Symposium
March 28, 2022
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Use These Seven “Don’ts” To Get Your Best Deal
March 21, 2022
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For The CEO-In-Waiting: Some Advice That You Won’t Get From A Ted Talk
March 14, 2022
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Heady Days For The Industry — But Storm Clouds Gather In The East
March 7, 2022
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The Four Paths To Your Tech-enabled Transformation
February 28, 2022
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I Really Miss My Buggy Whip
February 14, 2022
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Inside The Mind Of The CEO
February 7, 2022
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The New (Public) Kids On The Block
January 31, 2022
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Employee-owned Firms, The Big Squeeze, And The Nifty Fifty
January 24, 2022
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Your CFO And CMO — Innovation Killers or Innovation Champions?
January 18, 2022
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How Four Trends Will Converge Over Five Years To Remake The AE Industry
January 10, 2022
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? or “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake”
December 20, 2021
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2021: The Year Of The Big Raise
December 13, 2021
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Once In A Lifetime: An Open Letter To The Class Of 2022
December 6, 2021
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The A/E Firm Workplace In 2021: Just Don’t Say “Required”
November 29, 2021
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Our 22 Predictions For 2022
November 22, 2021
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It’s Time For Predictions—but First, How Did We Do In 2021?
November 15, 2021
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It’s not the Great Resignation that’s reshaping the A/E industry
November 8, 2021
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Private equity—the two big questions: Why? and Where Does This All End?
November 1, 2021
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The six big takeaways from our Texas M&A Symposium
October 25, 2021
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Taking the pulse of the A/E industry—Q4 edition
October 18, 2021
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What can we learn from the thirteen most prolific acquirers in the A/E industry?
October 11, 2021
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Coaching session for sellers: initial meeting “dos” and “don’ts”
October 4, 2021
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VAX, WFH, and other acronyms remaking the U.S. A/E workforce
September 27, 2021
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Avoid these unforced errors to be a successful acquirer in today’s market
September 20, 2021
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Eleven questions every CEO should be able to answer without fail
September 13, 2021
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The future’s so bright: Industry leaders see a strong ending to a remarkable 2021
August 30, 2021
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Five CEOs share their biggest regrets from the next recession
August 23, 2021
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The painful post-pandemic reality for many architecture firms
August 16, 2021
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A record-breaking six months of industry consolidation (Olympics edition)
August 9, 2021
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Summertime and the industry’s hummin’
August 2, 2021
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Strategic planning in a post-vaccine world: Do some firms have a competitive advantage?
July 26, 2021
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CEOs share what they’ve learned from the past year
July 19, 2021
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Five ways CEOs destroy value in their firms.
July 12, 2021
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The Magnificent Seven: How the industry’s most in-demand firms keep getting more valuable
June 27, 2021
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All aboard? Our digital future is arriving
June 21, 2021
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Four big take-aways from last week’s VR CEO & C-Suite Conference
June 14, 2021
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Navigating the 2021 tsunami of unsolicited M&A inquiries
June 7, 2021
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Dancing in the hotel lobby: Tips for post pandemic business travel
May 24, 2021
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“A booming 2021 through the lens of industry leaders”
May 17, 2021
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“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
May 10, 2021
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What CEOs could learn from Simone Biles and George Costanza
May 3, 2021
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A blow-out first quarter for M&A: The remaking of the A/E industry accelerates
April 26, 2021
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A shoutout to those on the leading edge
April 19, 2021
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Infrastructure Stimulus + Increased Taxes = Q4 M&A Feeding Frenzy
April 12, 2021
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