Ideas Library

How can AEC leaders stay grounded amid sustained pressure? Jill Barrett explores nervous-system regulation, emotional intelligence and the conditions that help teams remain steady through uncertainty.

What does human-centered AI require from leaders? Evolve explores how organizations shaping the built and creative worlds can approach AI with humanity, judgment and responsibility at the center.

A Sufi story about the difference between truth and comfort, and the quiet courage required to seek what is real, especially when certainty, happiness or belonging tempt us elsewhere.

What can leaders learn from places designed in relationship with nature? Exploring regenerative leadership, local context and the built environment.

Effective coaching does more than generate insight. Nine principles drawn from how people learn help coaches create the conditions for attention, experimentation, reflection and lasting behavioral change.

With holiday gift giving all around us, I wonder what you think of the narrative, ‘It's better to give than receive’? Do you agree?

The phrase “quiet quitting” has gained popularity in recent weeks with Tik-Tokers popularizing the expression and generating millions of views. For some, quiet quitting means setting clear boundaries around workload and not taking on additional tasks. For others, it means doing the bare minimum.

How can we best support ourselves in navigating change at work this year? And how might we do this in more traditional, complex and hierarchical workplaces like the federal government?

Jason knew that he needed to address his reactivity in order to get along with his team and advance in the organization. Part of him thought the challenge was insurmountable since he had struggled with this behavior his entire life. Jason grew up in a war-torn country in Eastern Europe where he was taught to scream and argue and constantly defend himself.

To be a leader requires more than self-awareness; it involves some understanding of how you became who you are, and where you are going. This is your story, your narrative. Your personal narrative influences your possibilities, including many of your experiences at work. Want to change your world? Change the story you tell yourself.

We are given one body for this lifetime. It is our duty to love it, cherish it and keep it healthy. Just as we strengthen our brain by working, reading and learning, we strengthen our bodies by exercising, eating nourishing foods and getting enough sleep.

When you attend to your feelings, connect your feelings to your underlying needs and open yourself to the other person’s perspective, you are ready for what very well could be a challenging yet worthy conversation.