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What Makes a Leader?

Leaders take Ownership

Leadership is Not About You

Leaders Provide Vision

The Revit Pilot Project Candidate 

Book Review - Mastering Revit Structure 2010

November Poll

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What Makes a Leader?

Leadership is a much needed quality that most people are looking for in others. They want political leaders, sports leaders, business leaders, spiritual leaders and so much more. But what about that quality in us? Are you a leader? Do you have leadership qualities? I am speaking on the subject of leadership at Autodesk University. So I present some of my thoughts here.

What makes a leader?

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Leadership is Not About You

What makes a Leader?  Some perspectives need to be in place...

I start with this one, but it is not necessarily the first or most important concept. It might be, but I don't really know. You might think it is and you may not.

Leaders are not in it for themselves. 

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Leaders take Ownership

What makes a leader?

Another perspective that leaders have is that they take ownership of the planning, process and outcome.  They share the planning and processes and seek to insure that the outcome is positive.  They act like they are owners of the outcome.  They act as if success or failure were personally affecting them (which it does). They act as if the money it takes to purchase was their own. They think and act as if the company was theirs.

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Leaders Provide Vision

Leaders look farther down the road than others. By constantly forcing themselves to see farther, they get a better perspective on what might happen tomorrow and beyond. This perspective allows them to present the future to others.

What is vision? It is just painting a picture of where you could go. It is taking into account all of the talents, resources and knowledge of a group and pointing them in a direction that best fits their ability and the needs that they are trying to fill. It is looking at where you are now, where you could be and then providing a possible plan to get there.

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The Revit Pilot Project Candidate

I have been asked what a good candidate project might be for a new pilot in BIM.  Here are my thoughts.

The whole point is to learn the tools not the become a design champion.

Project duration should be neither too short nor too long. 1-2 months is short – 12-18 months is long. This would be just straight design time, not including agency review time.

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Book Review - Mastering Revit Structure 2010

Mastering Revit Str 2010When I first opened this book the information it leaped off the page.  The presentation of the data was well laid out and I notice things like that.  The font selection was great and the good use of white space was impressive.  Illustrations and screen shots were on just about every page.

 

Mastering Revit Structure 2010 - Sybex/Wiley publishing
Authors - Tom Weir, Jamie Richardson and David Harrington

The wonderful thing was the joy did not stop there.  This book does not disappoint.  Scattered throughout the book are “Real World Scenarios”.  Little vignettes of information that came from the practical minds of the authors.  Things that they wanted to share apart from the systematic presentation of the topic.   Also mixed in are questions that you should ponder – like “how much should I model?” that encourage you to think beyond the basics.

The book is also filled with step by step exercises.  Each starts from a data set that can be downloaded from a companion website listed on page 51 (may be hard to find).

Insider tips and tricks are placed in the book to assist with the problems that you may encounter or to give you options.  One that I found refreshing was the trick of using a wall to represent a column.  They caution you that this may give the proper appearance but lack the property data you might need.

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November 2009 Poll

I asked how long you have been at your current level.  I am amazed that so many have held the exact same title for such a long time.  You should look to change your title every 3 years or so when you are early in your career.  Later career employees will maintain the same title longer.

 


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December - 2009

Leadership is always on my mind.  This issue focuses on some leadership issues.

Have a blessed Christmas!

Welcome in 2010...

Mark W. Kiker, Editor


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