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.
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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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
When
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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