The theme during our Brand Maintenance call this morning quickly moved to team building. One client was onboarding an Architect and a Senior, and another was determining what roles would build her best team while she's serving two coasts. The org chart, renumeration, duties and culture are all systems that, if you get them right, plug into a larger vision. That big vision is something that matters not only to you but to that team member who is joining your firm. You might want a doer, but...

Many of us, especially those of the creative persuasion, struggle with something that can undermine the growth of our business: focus. Research has also shown that multitasking creates bottlenecks in the brain. People who multi-task are pre-disposed to error. They actually take longer to get things done than those who tackle one thing at a time. That's because multitasking wasn't designed with humans in mind. The concept was originated by computer engineers and refers to the ability of a...

The only way to the other side is through. I take that back. You can jump over the problem, pivot around it, ignore it entirely and for a while that works. You get busy enough that you don't have to look at it. You land a good project and it falls back. You hire someone and it shifts just enough to feel manageable. But it comes back. It always comes back. Because it isn't the problem that’s the problem. It’s a pattern that you’ve you built, one reasonable workaround at a time. What you’re...