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Understanding the Secret Value of Value
When we are subconsultants, we are aware of our place within the world. Site design and landscape often aren’t the highest focus of attention within a project. We’ve developed approaches and skills where we try our best to deliver high value, even in the face of a lack of engagement or sub-optimal processes. We operate at…
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It’s 2015. Play is for All.
In Anchorage, there’s a roller rink that recently forbade a child with a disability from being out on the rink. I don’t have children. I don’t have a disability. My family doesn’t have anyone with a disability. For some reason or another I passionately believe that it is a human right for children to have…
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Mentoring – Peer to Peer
Your role where you work is to complete your tasks to your highest capabilities. It’s typical that we stretch a bit, perhaps to 110%, since we figure out some things as we go along. What this means is that you make sure your supervisor doesn’t need to catch things that you should have done. What they should…
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What Does Mentoring Mean?
Mentoring takes many forms. Many of our growth interactions with people are informal, and have only the structure of the conversation. There is value when we engage into mentorship in a more rigorous fashion, either through our own planning of our growth… or through defined relationships with specific people. This blog post takes a loose…
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Optimistic Cynicism?
What personality type would describe someone who it optimistically bitter and cynical? Many of the posts that this blog will contain will start with a complaint in my head about how things are. Then the little voice inside of me tells me to make lemonade, “be solution based!” I grumble a little but then shift into trying to…
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Build Each other Up
You get to a point in your career when you realize that your value isn’t so much in what you know, but it’s your experience in how you apply it. There’s community value in sharing your knowledge. While perhaps initially counter-intuitive, my optimistic self would like to believe those that say this raises your value at the same…