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  • Using ERM to strengthen your firm

    Using ERM to strengthen your firm

    March 28, 2021

    By Rob Hughes | Enterprise risk management provides a formal process for firms to examine their critical risks in context, and implement cost-effective risk management and risk-financing solutions.

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  • Hire for character, train for skill

    Hire for character, train for skill

    December 27, 2020

    By Mark Zweig | Many people in this business will say they agree with this idea, yet the people doing the hiring rarely do it.

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  • Impeach!

    Impeach!

    March 16, 2020

    If you are within the leadership group of your company, there are times when you may need to purge your leadership team to move forward.

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  • A designer embezzlement

    September 09, 2016

    ACI Boland Architects of Kansas City was betrayed by an office manager who, over a decade, funneled millions into secret bank accounts. By Richard Massey Managing Editor A long-time office manager at one of Kansas...

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  • When you run out of gas

    March 05, 2007

    We can all take a lesson from my old buddy Bert Johnson (not his real name). He is a classic case of the entrepreneur who lost interest in his business, but figured out how to...

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  • Avoiding Obsolescence

    June 05, 1995

    If I could give only one caution to principals of A/E/P and environmental firms, it would not be “grow slowly so you don’t over-expand and outstrip your managerial capabilities.” Nor would it be “watch every...

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