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Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Adam Greenspan, ASLA is a design partner at PWP, and has been the lead designer on a wide range of projects including estates, public parks, campuses and competitions. Adam's background in art and sociology, combined with years of horticultural practice allow him to conceive of and develop projects from many angles. One of his main objectives at PWP has been the integration of regenerative and sustainable principles within each project design. Adam has collaborated extensively with architects, artists, community groups and city staff, as well as sub-consultant experts, in the process of realizing exceptional built work. Adam's recent projects include: Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Transbay Transit Center Park in downtown San Francisco, Glenstone in Potomac, MD, and the Newport Beach City Hall and Park in Newport Beach California. Adam received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors in Sociology and Studio Arts from Wesleyan University and a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Adam Greenspan
PWP Landscape Architecture
Berkeley, California
Stephanie Rolley, FASLA, AICP brings her expertise in visualizing possibilities, whether in community designs, scholarship or organizational change, to her work as a faculty member and head of the department of landscape architecture and regional & community planning in Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning & Design. Her leadership includes a long-standing engagement in and reflection upon interdisciplinary community-based collaborations, as well as the first nonbaccalaureate landscape architecture and regional and community planning programs in the country. Her early professional practice was in architecture, planning and urban design offices in Boston, Dallas and San Antonio. She has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University, a master's in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she completed the management development program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Stephanie Rolley
Professor and Head, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
Jennifer Guthrie, FASLA is a founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. Jennifer's design leadership merges a guiding, experiential vision with innovative and precise detailing. Her work ranges broadly, from the neighborhood-scale — such as the new, urban district of green streets and mixed-use housing at the University of Washington — to public squares, gardens, and cultural work such as the Seattle Civic Center campus, the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park, and the South Coast Plaza Bridge of Gardens in Costa Mesa, California. Jennifer and her partners are the recipients of The Smithsonian's 2011 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, and her work has received numerous national and regional Honor Awards from ASLA and AIA. Jennifer lectures internationally and serves on the Landscape Architectural Foundation Board, the ASLA CEO Roundtable, and the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations' Industry Advisory Panel.
Jennifer Guthrie
Immediate Past President
Founding Principal
Seattle, Washington
Professor Kofi Boone, ASLA focuses on the changing nature of communities, and developing tools for enhanced community engagement and design. Through scholarship, teaching, and extension service, Professor Boone works in the landscape context of environmental justice, and his research includes the use of new media as a means of increasing community input in design and planning processes. Prior to joining the faculty at NC State University, Kofi was a studio leader at JJR (formerly Johnson, Johnson, and Roy) working on a wide range of interdisciplinary urban design and planning projects. He received his Master of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources from The University of Michigan. He is the recipient of several awards including the Opal Mann Green Engagement Scholarship Award, the Department of Landscape Architecture Professor of the Year, and the Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher.
Kofi Boone
Vice President of Education
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
M. Elen Deming, DDES is Director, Doctor of Design and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the North Carolina State University College of Design. She holds a Doctor of Design degree and an MLA from Harvard Design School, as well as an MA in Art History and BA in Environmental Studies. Formerly, she was Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Since 1993, she has taught history and theory of landscape architecture, as well as foundation and advanced landscape design studios. While at SUNY ESF, Deming served the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) as co-editor of Landscape Journal with James F. Palmer (emeritus, SUNY ESF), from 2002, and she assumed the role of sole editor from 2006 until Fall 2009. Deming believes that the best way to advance the discipline is for landscape architects to reframe practical problems as intellectual opportunities. She is coauthor of the book Landscape Architecture Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design.
M. Elen Deming
Vice President of Research
Director, Doctor of Design and Professor of Landscape Architecture
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Lisa is a principal at James Corner Field Operations, a leading-edge landscape architecture, urban design and public realm practice based in New York City. As the principal-in-charge of many of the practice's complex public realm projects, Lisa led the design of the High Line in New York, Tongva Park in Santa Monica, and the Race Street Pier in Philadelphia. She also worked on the Navy Yards Central Green in Philadelphia, Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, and the Master Plans for Freshkills Park and Seattle's Central Waterfront. In 2007-2008, Lisa received the Rome Prize and was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Lisa has a BA in Urban Planning with a focus on Community Development Planning from the University of Illinois, and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught graduate level design studios and has lectured at universities, symposiums, foundations and institutions around the world.
Lisa Tziona Switkin
Vice President of Leadership
James Corner Field Operations
New York, New York
Richard. Heriford is President of Landscape Forms, an $85 million company, which is well positioned as the global premium brand of site furniture, lighting and accessories. Richard has a passion for design, company culture and American craft. Richard joined Landscape Forms as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2000 and helped fine-tune the company's go-to-market strategy, strengthen brand awareness, and expand new product development. Richard Heriford graduated from Kansas State University, College of Architecture and Design and studied Brand Management at Southern Methodist University. Mr. Heriford spent his early career in Architecture in Kansas City and Dallas.
Richard E. Heriford
Vice President of Communication
Landscape Forms
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Monte Wilson, ASLA is a Director of Jacobs' Advance Planning Group, a specialized business unit of the firm's global design practice. In addition to his leadership role in defining the strategic direction for the practice, Monte serves as a Project Principal and Senior Designer on a range of project types including: new towns, mixed-use, transit oriented development, revitalization studies as well as university, research and corporate campus master plans. Much of his career has focused on issues associated with community building, urban redevelopment, and sustainability and since 2008, Monte has worked to integrate Biomimicry into the practice of community planning and city building. Along with a number of current and former colleagues, he is engaged in educating clients and informing design through a bio-inspired planning framework and a systems based approach based on life's principles. He has worked on projects throughout the world, including the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Panama, Israel, North Africa, Canada and Mexico.
Monte Wilson
Vice President of Finance
Jacobs Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia
Inspired by travel and the exceptional design he encounters, Jim Manskey, ASLA cherishes family, outdoor recreation and exploring new locales, which inform his design sensibilities. His annual ski trips, in particular, enlighten his perspective on designing extraordinary resort destinations. Jim opened TBG's Dallas office in 1998 and began serving as President in January 2014. He has in-depth design experience and provides invaluable leadership on many complex and high-profile projects. He guides his teams through the creation of sophisticated environments that consistently provide a sense of place, human scale and varieties of interest. Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Texas A&M University, 1979.
Jim Manskey
Vice President of Development
TBG Partners
Dallas, Texas
Gerdo Aquino, FASLA, RLA is firm-wide CEO of SWA, an award-winning global practice operating on the leading edge of landscape architecture, urban design and planning. With 20 years of professional experience, he has had much success in solving a wide range of environmental landscape design problems for projects where open space, urban density, and place-making are key issues. Gerdo's notable public realm projects include the redesign of the culturally significant San Jacinto Plaza in El Paso, and the design of Belgrade Serbia's Sava Promenada. Gerdo is adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern California and has taught option studio at the Harvard Graduate School of Design over the past two years. He has served on the Harvard Design Magazine editorial board, USC academic advisory committee, has lectured at important institutions in around the world and co-authored the award-winning research publication Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA (Birkhauser, 2013-14), which examined the future role of infrastructure in balancing ecological systems, economic development and open space needs within dense urban cities.
Gerdo Aquino
Firmwide CEO
Los Angeles, California
Gayle Berens was the senior vice president of the Urban Land Institute's Education & Advisory Group, where she oversaw the professional development, awards, and advisory service programs. Throughout her long tenure at ULI, her responsibilities spanned a variety of institue activities, among them directing the publications program; serving as executive director of the ULI Center for Balanced Development in the West; and directing and developing the ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Berens is the coauthor of several books, including Urban Parks and Open Space, published with the Trust for Public Land; and ULI's best-selling book, Real Estate Development Principles and Process, first, second, thrid, and fourth editions. Berens has also served as project director for many publications and as written many articles for Urban Land and case studies. She hold an M.S. degree from Georgetown University.
Gayle Berens
Rebecca is Co-Founder and Design Principal of Cadence. Since it's inception in 2010, she had worked alongside business partner, Gage Couch to direct and manage all the firms day-to-day operations and well as lead projects through the entire design process. Rebecca is responsible for overseeing business development, community engagement, and strategic planning for the firm. She has practiced Landscape Architecture in South Florida for 15 years and is a licensed Landscape Architect in the State of Florida and Louisiana. Rebecca is a BLA graduate of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture and spent the early years of her career with EDSA. Over the years, Rebecca's travel and project endeavors have taken her around the globe and across various market sectors including urban redevelopment, hospitality, campus, and healthcare design. She takes great pride in creating meaningful places for people to enjoy.
Rebecca Bradley
Co-Founder and Design Principal
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, FASLA is the Americas practice director of landscape architecture at AECOM. He brings 30 years of experience in the planning and design of urban landscapes, new communities, university campuses, waterfronts, urban and resource-based parks and civic spaces in the United States, Asia, and Latin America. He is recognized as a leading proponent of Landscape Urbanism, and his work focuses on the integration of green infrastructure, public art, ecology, community identity, and recreation. Ignacio holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in Florida, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Loeb Fellowship in Environmental Studies from Harvard University. He has taught advanced design studios at these and other universities and has lectured widely on the practice of landscape architecture.
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Landscape Architecture Practice Leader, Americas
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Richard D. Centolella, PLA, FASLA, is a Principal at EDSA and manages EDSA's Baltimore Studio. He specializes in resort design, community planning and large-scale master planning. He holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He joined EDSA in 1985.
Rich Centolella
Baltimore, MD
Nina Chase is the co-founder and Principal of Merritt Chase, a Pittsburgh-based landscape architecture and urban design practice. The firm works locally and has been recognized nationally for their public space designs, placemaking initiatives, and research. Formerly of Sasaki and the Pittsburgh non-profit Riverlife, Nina works to position landscape architecture as a foundational building block for cities. Nina is a graduate of Harvard's GSD and West Virginia University and was named a University Olmsted Scholar in 2009. Nina is currently an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture.
Nina Chase
Merritt Chase
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Po is the Executive Director in charge of BrightView Design Group, the national landscape architecture, planning and pre-development practice of BrightView. His corporate leadership skills and 20+ years' business and strategic planning experience in the design and construction industry have proven instrumental in the rapid and profitable growth of the country's top landscape design/build practice. Po holds dual Liberal Arts degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA focused in Organizational Management from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He is a member of Critical Mass and a director on several boards including the Orange County Great Park Neighborhoods, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Veloce Motors.
Po-Sun Chen
Executive Director
BrightView Design Group
Irvine, California
Alma Du Solier is a landscape designer and architect with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor in Architecture from ITESM Campus Monterrey (Mexico). Alma has 20 years of experience in the practice of design and is currently the Studio Director at Hood Design, in Oakland, CA. Alma has been lead designer for a wide range of projects from urban parks and mixed-use projects to long-term open space and resources strategic planning. She is a recurring guest lecturer at UC Berkeley's Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
Alma Du Solier
Studio Director
Hood Design Studio
Oakland, California
Dorothy Faris, ASLA has worked on a variety of public and private projects across the Western United States. Her ability to think across scales — from master planning large sites to specifics of construction details — informs her project work. Her collaborative and conceptual approach makes her a valuable team member. With a background in ceramics and art history, Dorothy was attracted to landscape architecture as an art form that enhances our built environments. Her concept driven approach aims to reveal stories of a place, celebrate ecological function and generate community life through the creation of great civic spaces.
Dorothy Faris
Associate Principal
Seattle, Washington
As Partner and Director of Research, Skip Graffam, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP leads design and planning projects as well as research initiatives that support OLIN's contribution to the practice of landscape architecture, urban design and planning. OLIN's research initiative is historically grounded in academia and explores how landscape architecture can positively enhance life and the environment in the 21st century. Skip is currently leading OLIN's landscape design for the Hills at Vallco, a groundbreaking new mixed-use destination and 30-acre green roof in Cupertino, California. Skip holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he has served as an invited critic. He is also a frequent lecturer at Temple University, where he previously served as an Assistant Professor. He also teaches regularly at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, Skip was one of three OLIN Partners to lead the first-ever studio on landscape architecture at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.
Skip Graffam
Partner, Director of Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stephanie Grigsby is a principal, landscape architect and certified planner with Design Workshop. Her ability to help clients navigate complex projects and develop collaborative solutions has resulted in a number of award-winning community, parks and recreation projects. Stephanie has been recognized for her capacity to synthesize and distill comprehensive data and site analysis information into a set of clear and innovative design solutions with measurable outcomes. Her award-winning work with the Nevada Department of Transportation set the national standard for context-sensitive design and addressing both aesthetics and the environment along highway corridors. Stephanie received her Masters of Landscape Architecture from Utah State University and has been practicing landscape architecture in California and Nevada since 2000. She also serves as the president of Valhalla Tahoe, a non-profit organization and caretaker of the Tallac Historic site with the mission to preserve Tahoe heritage through art, music and theatre.
Stephanie Grigsby
Design Workshop
Lake Tahoe, California
Michael plays a leading role in Sasaki's global practice, focusing on the evolution of urban environments. With 20 years of experience in Asia, he offers unique insight into the unprecedented transformation and urbanization of the region. Michael is a graduate of Cornell University, with a bachelor of science in landscape architecture and a focus on planning and urban design. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Urban Land Institute, and is a board member of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Michael's work has been recognized with numerous awards, and he is also a frequent presenter at conferences and universities around the world.
Michael Grove
Sasaki Associates
Watertown, Massachusetts
As a Project Coordinator in the Prince George's County office of the Neighborhood Design Center, Kendra works with Community Design Works and Arbor Day Every Day programs. A DC native, she returned to the metro area after receiving a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona and a Bachelors in Studio Art from Spelman College. Her time working in the public sector for the DC Department of Parks and Recreation and the private realm of commercial landscape architecture has helped shaped her creative and collaborative approach to urban design challenges. She is a 2015 University Olmsted Scholar and an accomplished swim instructor and coach.
Kendra Hyson
Project Coordinator
Neighborhood Design Center
Hyattsville, Maryland
Brian Jencek, RLA, ASLA, is located in HOK's San Francisco office and is co-director of the firm's global planning practice. His responsibilities include leading multidisciplinary teams through the design process to successfully deliver projects. He builds relationships with clients through creative solutions, responsiveness and understanding their need for triple bottom line results.Brian is active professionally and academically with the ASLA, ULI and the Clinton Climate Initiative. He teaches graduate-level design studios on the topics of climate change and resiliency at the UC Berkeley.
Brian Jencek
Director of Planning
San Francisco, California
Michael Johnson, ASLA, RLA is a leading multidisciplinary specialist in campus planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. A co-leader of the firm's Urban Design Practice, he has the ability to distill and understand multifaceted urban challenges and has developed cross-discipline problem-solving skills that supersede market segment and geographic location. Michael has expertise in managing complex projects with multi-office teams and high-profile constituent involvement. Michael's formal training as a landscape architect and urban designer allow him to fill a unique niche in the industry, both as a professional, and guest lecturer in the Urban Design Program at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Planning. In addition, he has received international recognition as a finalist in four high-profile urban design competitions.
Michael Johnson
Urban Designer
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Diane Jones Allen, D. Eng., MLA, ASLA, RLA, has 27-years of experience in professional practice, research, and teaching, focusing on land planning, transportation planning, and large-scale residential and park design projects, as well as community development work. Diane was a tenured professor in Landscape Architecture, at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She also served as a member of the Baltimore City Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel (UDARP). She is currently Principal Landscape Architect with DesignJones LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana. On behalf of more than 15,000 members of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), DesignJones LLC was selected to receive the 2016 Community Service Award. Her research and practice is guided by the intersection of environmental justice, identity and sustainability in African-American cultural landscapes, including "Nomadic" responses to "Transit Deserts," places of increasing transportation demand and limited access, as discuss in her forth coming book.
Diane Jones Allen
Principal Landscape Architect
DesignJones LLC
New Orleans, Louisiana
Daniel Martin is Director of Marketing at Permaloc Corporation, the world's premium manufacturer of edging and restraint solutions for landscape and green build applications. During his thirteen year tenure at Permaloc, the company has experienced exponential growth through increased brand recognition and product development. Daniel has gained a passion for serving the landscape architecture community, with an emphasis on students and emerging professionals, through his annual involvement with LABash, serving on ASLA's Emerging Professionals Committee & Member Services Committee, serving on the NALP's Supplier Advisory Council, and serving as a juror for the LAF Olmsted Scholarships. Daniel's passion for service has been recognized with numerous awards, including the ASLA Outstanding Service Award in 2016. Daniel is also a Partner in Land8 Media, one of the profession's leading destinations for information and collaboration. As the organizer of the ASLA Leadership Visit Series, Daniel visits the landscape architecture programs of more than fifteen universities each academic year, allowing him a unique perspective of the profession's future.
Daniel Martin
Director of Marketing
Permaloc Corporation
Holland, Michigan
Deborah Marton has dedicated her career to urban open space, with a focus on merging natural systems with the built environment. She joined New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 2011, and has worked since to develop NYRP's identity as an urban land conservancy working across municipal jurisdictions to increase environmental and social sustainability citywide. Prior to joining NYRP, Deborah served as executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space. She was also Program Manager of New York City Parks Natural Resources Group and later associated with the landscape architecture firm Field Operations, where she collaborated on the winning submission for the Fresh Kills Master Plan. In 2015, she was awarded Green Building & Design's Women in Sustainability Leadership Award. She received a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Design School and also holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Deborah Marton
Executive Director
New York Restoration Project
New York, New York
Steve McCarter, PLA, ASLA serves as National Water Efficiency Products Manager for Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply. Steve has more than 30 years of experience as a Landscape Architect and Territory Sales Manager in the irrigation and building materials industry. He has extensive experience in the development and management of wholesale distribution while also developing the "demand" side through specification efforts and contractor training. Over the years, he has provided product training expertise to a wide spectrum of design professionals, university students, contractors and distributor personnel. Steve has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Kansas State University. He is a registered Landscape Architect in Texas and Oklahoma, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and an Irrigation Association Certified Landscape Irrigation Auditor (CLIA).
Steve McCarter
National Water Efficiency Products Manager
McKinney, Texas
Kate Orff is a landscape architect envisioning new forms of public space that reveal and revive the hidden ecological systems underlying our built environments and encourage urban residents to become active stewards of their natural surroundings. As founding principal of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design studio, Orff's work ranges from large-scale coastal infrastructure initiatives to the design of city parks, as well as book-length publications, museum exhibitions, and self-guided podcast tours that invite city dwellers to explore the natural histories of their regions. Kate Orff received a B.A. (1993) from the University of Virginia and an M.L.A. (1997) from Harvard University. She is the author of Toward an Urban Ecology (2016) and co-editor of Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park (2011). She is an associate professor and director of the Urban Design Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.
Kate Orff
New York, New York
Roberto Rovira is principal of Studio Roberto Rovira, Associate Professor, and former chair of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design at Florida International University. As a professionally Registered Landscape Architect, he combines his knowledge from landscape architecture, engineering, technology, and fine art, to work at various scales and collaborate with interdisciplinary practitioners, community, city, state, and government organizations. His teaching, research and creative work explore the potential of landscape architecture to play a pivotal role in envisioning and shaping public space. Roberto completed a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1990, and a Masters in Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1998. Roberto has lived in Latin America, Europe, and Japan and is a former U. S. Naval Officer, having served primarily in Asia and the Persian Gulf from 1990 to 1994. He was recognized by the Architectural League with the 2015 Emerging Voice award.
Roberto Rovira
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design
Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Jim Stickley, ASLA, LEED AP is a landscape architect and urban designer whose leadership skills and passion for place-making are as valuable to enriching WRT's office culture as they are to meeting the needs of our clients. His experience on a number of complex projects both domestically and internationally has spanned the full spectrum from large scale planning assignments to detailed design and implementation projects. Jim has extensive experience in developing plans to enhance urban districts and public open space including complex projects involving community interaction. Jim serves as director of WRT's San Francisco office and oversees landscape architecture and urban design projects in that office.
Jim Stickley
Wallace Roberts & Todd (WRT)
San Francisco, California
Richard Weller is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He leads a department perceived by many to be the pre-eminent generator of landscape architectural innovation in the last 60 years. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and former Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre and the design firm Room 4.1.3. He has received a consistent stream of international design competition awards at all scales of landscape architecture and urban design. He has published 4 books and over 80 single-authored papers. His current research concerns regions where rapid urban growth and biodiversity are in direct conflict. He was honored with an Australian National Teaching Award in 2012.
Richard Weller
Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stan Wall, P.E. joined HR&A as a Partner in the Washington D.C. office in August 2015 after holding several senior positions in the mid-Atlantic region. He is focused on advising both public-sector and private-sector entities in all aspects of economic development, real estate development, and revitalization. Prior to HR&A, Stan was the Director of Real Estate and Station Planning at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the second busiest transit system in the United States. Stan is also owner and founder of Wall Development Group, a Washington, D.C. based development firm focused on sustainable development, urban infill, and community-oriented projects. Past experience includes positions with Arup, Jones Lang LaSalle, Deloitte Consulting, and Lend Lease. Stan received a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In 2013, the Washington Business Journal recognized Stan as one of the region's Minority Business Leader Award winners. Stan is a registered Professional Engineer, a member of the ULI Transit-Oriented Development Council, and a former member of the Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission.
Stan Wall
HR&A Advisors
Washington, D.C.
ASLA Representatives
Nancy C. Somerville, Hon. ASLA is the Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Since joining the Society in August 2000, Somerville has expanded ASLA's public relations programs, increased ASLA's presence on Capitol Hill, and enabled the Society to become a more effective advocate on sustainability, community planning, transportation, and land use issues. Somerville directs the Society's ongoing green roof education and advocacy programs, as well as ASLA's participation as a Founding Partner in the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Somerville joined ASLA after 18 years with the American Institute of Architects, where she served as managing director and vice president of program areas including membership, government affairs, chapter relations, community development, and continuing education. A native of the Washington, D.C., area, she holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. from Stanford University.
Nancy C. Somerville
Executive Vice President and CEO
American Society of Landscape Architects
Washington, DC
Vaughn B. Rinner, FASLA was President of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2016-2017.
Vaughn Rinner
Immediate Past President
American Society of Landscape Architects
CELA Representative
Dr. Bo Yang, PhD, ASLA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University (USU). Bo received his master's of landscape architecture and PhD in Urban and Regional Sciences from Texas A&M University. He also received bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture in China. Bo has practiced landscape architecture and urban design/planning in firms like SWA and HNTB in both China and the United States. He has published 37 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of environmental planning, stormwater management, and landscape performance assessment. He has secured more than $285,000 in research funding while at USU (2009-2015). Bo is current working on an NSF project, in which he examines green infrastructure performance in the semi-arid Intermountain West. Bo is the first recipient of the CELA/California Landscape Architectural Student Scholarship (CLASS) Fund award (PI, 2015). Bo also received the CELA Excellence in Research and/or Creative Work Award (Junior Level) in 2016.
Bo Yang
Associate Professor
Utah State University
Logan, Utah


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March 25, 2010
Chile Earthquake Fact-Finding Mission Finds Building Codes Saved Tens of Thousands of Lives
BALTIMORE -– A fact-finding mission sent to Chile in the aftermath of the most powerful earthquake in recent history determined that Chile's adoption of California earthquake building codes in the early 1960s likely prevented the deaths of tens of thousands of people but did not prevent the failure of communications in the nation's healthcare system.
A research team including Rick Bissell, director of the Center for Emergency Education and Disaster Research at UMBC, toured earthquake damaged Chile March 13 to 21 under a "rapid reconnaissance" grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the effects of earthquake building damage on health care delivery systems. The group was part of a larger team from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and included experts from Johns Hopkins University, FEMA, the Chilean Ministry of Health and the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile.
The team found that one of the greatest obstacles to uninterrupted healthcare delivery in the aftermath of the earthquake was the complete failure of Chile's communications system. The nation's highly-centralized national hospital and public health system had no way to communicate other than through ambulance VHS radio relays established by emergency responders.
"It was very critical to investigate not only why Chile's buildings held up so much better than in Haiti and many other places, but also to see how the delivery of healthcare and operation of hospitals held up in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake," Bissell said.
The most important factor was Chile's adoption of, with California and Japan, earthquake building codes first developed in the 1960s, and regularly upgraded since. Chile, Japan and California are among the most active earthquake areas along the Pacific Ocean basin known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire" for its volcanic and seismic activity.
Although Chile's earthquake damage was catastrophic, destroying many roads, bridges and the homes of 800,000 people, there were fewer than 500 deaths and 500 injuries thanks to strict building codes and the fortuitous early morning timing of the earthquake, Bissell said.
The team found that no hospital in Chile suffered complete structural failure. The government of Chile reports that of 79 affected hospitals, 54 suffered minor damage, eight suffered major damage and 17 will require a complete rebuild. All affected hospitals lost power, water and communications.
Among the team's other findings was that Chilean hospitals -- cut off from communications with their superiors -- saved lives without using patient transfer protocols typical of emergency plans for U.S. hospitals that have been damaged. Instead of closing the hospitals and transferring all patients out, all stable patients were discharged, and remaining patients and earthquake victims were moved to undamaged parts of the hospital.
"The U.S. model is to completely evacuate a hospital if it is damaged in an earthquake. But in a major earthquake such as this, thousands of square miles could be impacted, and we need to reconsider our policy of mass patient transfer, and take a stronger look at moving patients to undamaged portions of their hospital, and making room by discharging patients who are stable enough to complete their recovery process at home." Bissell said.
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Hamilton, ON (PRWEB) January 29, 2014
Becoming a Toyota Certified Collision Centre is a strong partnership for a collision centre. It establishes a level of quality, service and trust that reflects the Toyota brand. It has therefore been a momentous and humbling process for two CARSTAR centres that have attained the Toyota Certification.
CARSTAR Hamilton Gage, sponsored by Red Hill Toyota Scion and CARSTAR Hamilton Rymal, sponsored by Upper James Toyota, have both become Toyota Certified. Both the Toyota and Scion dealerships are part of Parkway Motors Hamilton family.
The brothers Tony, Sam and Remo Mercanti who own the collision centres consider it a significant accomplishment that both of their locations received this certification. "We are certainly grateful and excited at the same time for the opportunity to professionally serve Toyota customers," says Tony Mercanti.
"We were aware that the CARSTAR brand is a sought after brand in the Hamilton and Halton area and in creating this partnership we knew we wanted to work with the best," says Ilya Pinassi, Vice-President of Operations at Parkway Motors Hamilton. "After doing a tour of the facilities with Tony, Sam and Remo, we felt more than comfortable partnering with them, so we recommended it to Toyota Canada."
Becoming Toyota Certified requires an intensive process to ensure that only top centres are selected. After a recommendation is made to Toyota Canada they perform reviews that look at processes, material waste and client satisfaction to capture an overall picture of how a client's repair is handled from start to finish.
"We are really appreciative of Ilya's recognition in recommending us to Toyota," adds Tony Mercanti. "This third party accreditation and approval not only creates consumer confidence, but also shows appreciation for all of our employees who are dedicated to hard work and continuous learning."
The teams at both CARSTAR Hamilton Gage and CARSTAR Hamilton Rymal are committed to outstanding levels of service and quality workmanship, making them two of the most referred to collision repair centres in Hamilton. They have been serving the Hamilton community for over 50 years and they look forward to the opportunity to serve even more customers as a result of this certification. Parkway Motors Hamilton, who have been serving Hamilton for over 30 years, are a perfect partner as both family owned and operated companies share similar values.
"This is a great partnership we have built with Toyota Canada and Scion Canada. Throughout the process of being certified we knew this collaboration was based on their shared values with CARSTAR," says Jeff Moriarty, Regional Development Manager for CARSTAR for Hamilton, Halton, Niagara. "Both companies have a strong family orientation which means every client matters."
Toyota Certification has only been achieved by a small percentage of collision centres across Canada, making this a great accomplishment for CARSTAR to start of 2014.
About CARSTAR Collision & Glass Centres
CARSTAR is the largest and fastest growing automotive repair franchise in North America, with over 400 locations. Founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 1995, CARSTAR Collision & Glass Centres has grown from eight to over 190 locations throughout 10 provinces. Within Canada, CARSTAR repairs approximately 100,000 vehicles per year, with exceptionally high customer experience ratings. In 2013, CARSTAR was recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies. For more information, please visit: http://www.carstar.ca.
Photo: Tony Mercanti, Remo Mercanti , Ilya Pinassi & Sam Mercanti


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|Handover training: does one size fit all? The merits of mass customisation
|Kicken, Wendy
Van der Klink, Marcel
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|Background. Training plays an important role in improving handovers. However, the content and delivery of handover training are only superficially examined and poorly described in literature. The aim of this study is to formulate recommendations for an effective training in handover and to examine whether standardization is a viable solution. Methods. A training needs analysis was conducted by means of a questionnaire, which was filled out by 96 healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Poland. Preferences and recommendations regarding training delivery aspects and training topics that should be included in a training for handover were measured. Results. The majority of the participants recommended to provide a short conventional training with practical assignments to a small, multidisciplinary group. Formal examination, e-learning and self-study were not favoured. Recommended training topics were: communication skills, standardized procedures, knowing what to hand over, alertness to vulnerable patient groups, and awareness of responsibility. Small differences between countries pertain to suggested solutions to handover problems, such as reducing the time interval between discharge and discharge letter (The Netherlands), ensure information is handed over at all (Poland), and more standardized procedures and information systems (Sweden and Spain). Conclusions. The idea of a completely standardized handover training is not in line with the identified differences in preferences and recommendations between different handover stakeholders. Instead mass customization of training in which a generic training can easily be adapted to the trainees' needs, based on examinations of, for example, their preferences or identified handover problems and solutions, is a more promising approach to handover training.
|Kicken, W., Van der Klink, M., Barach, P., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (2012). Handover training: does one size fit all? The merits of mass customisation. British Medical Journal Quality & Safety, 21, i84-i88. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001164
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Published: 2004/06/29
by Andy Miller
Featured Column: Real True Confessions with Padre PienbiqueBlackmailing Schrger's Cat
Before I get on with the meat of this tale, I want to bring up a popular example used to clarify a paradox in quantum physics known as "Schrger's Cat". Now, before you ask the first prudent question, such as "What the fuck do you know about such matters?" I willingly concede that I don't know much. But the fun of quantum physics is that you don't have to know shit to be blown away by its subtlety, yet you can study it for decades and find yourself all the more lost within its details. As for how I know that, it's because I've befriended a couple of cats that make their living as physicists admit it to me after a few drinks. However, since neither of us is going to earn a doctorate by discussing the uncertainty of sub-atomic behavior, let's not get our tits twisted in details.
To make a long story short, Schrger was a contemporary of Einstein, although not necessarily a like mind. The Schrger's Cat example states that no matter how carefully an observer watches an event, the outcome is dependent on how the observer witnesses what's going on. To be specific: Schrger proposed that if one was to put a cat and a possibly deadly hunk of radioactive poison in the same box, none of us could know whether or not the cat is dead until we peeked in the box. While it may only take a second for us to figure out if Garfield has kicked over after we open the box, Schrger states that the cat (to our knowledge) exists as both dead and alive at the same time. This period of uncertainty places the fate of the cat (is it live, or is it Memorex?) squarely in the hands of the observer until the truth is found out.
I'm only bringing this up to cover my ass: no matter what happens to any of us, we can only have our impressions sculpted by the evidence we've been privy to witnessing. In other words, the strange and comedic events that I'm going to report to you did happen, but the details as observed by the good folks who saw them may be flawed or flavored with personal prejudice. Thus, it stands that my perspective will be influenced as I report them to you. So if you actually saw any of the following first-hand, don't call me with corrections. Just let the story stand.
As some of you know, I play bass in a band known as the Big Wu. Every year we throw a tidy little festival called the "Big Wu Family Reunion". In my way, I'm very proud of our get-together; we always get great bands, feature sound and lighting second to nobody, (and I mean nobody), serve great food backstage, hire hands-off security, and organize food drives for the community that hosts the festival. While there are always other great festivals for people to spend their money at, we never worry about the success of the Reunion. Folks come to have a good time and leave after having a better experience than they hoped for.
However, nothing with 3000 folks not just doing what they want- but everything they want- ever runs smoothly. Somewhere within the group resides a bad drunk, an accident, an LSD Custer being run over by 2,999 noble savages, or perhaps a renegade weather system hell-bent on spoiling the fun. Even when everyone is committed to riding out the wild turns, (read: curing hangovers), shit happens. For the purposes of this story, let us pay no attention to the Big Wu fans that behaved themselves and had a great Reunion. I'd rather report the exceptional behavior of those who were willing to separate themselves from the pack: The crazy, the fucked-up, and the unfortunate.
As we all know, nothing kicks off a festival like a car fire. No, not the garden variety sort caused by a neglected burning bud that fell out of the bowl, only to roll under the back seat, leaving a tell tale burn mark in Dad's Oldsmobile. I'm talking about a full-fledged Dodge sedan burning so hot that the roof folded into a perfect "V" under its own weight. According to my head of security, Al Sedacca, the owner of the car passed out after unsuccessfully attempting to free his chariot from a mud hole it had sank into. Apparently, something in his transmission got became so hot that other flammable parts of the undercarriage got spark and began to burn. Naturally, the flames attracted others in the lot, who became curious and gathered around and gawked while the owner of the car slept peacefully as the fire gained momentum. This is about the time where Al Sedacca showed up and started rapping on the guy's window to awaken him from his slumber. After several attempts to rouse his interest and educate him on the state of his burning hooptie, he responded with little more than "Lemme alone man…" As a last resort, Al yelled through his window that he was within five seconds from having the same window smashed in and his body dragged out of it. Upon seeing his options, he jumped out and did the only reasonable thing the situation called for- he ran away.
As an aside, we had the burned corpse of the car rolled out as a prop for a couple of Wu promo shots. When Terry the drummer slid in Dukes of Hazzard style, he found a charred wallet that had been left behind. The contents of the wallet had burned to ashes save a Panorama Video rental card and the laminated top to his Minnesota drivers license. The raised letters of the license revealed his address, weight, eye color and the rest of it. Being good citizens, the band arranged for the master of ceremonies to shout out a "lost wallet" announcement from the stage. To my knowledge, the dude in question never came backstage to claim his parcel. That's okay. I know where he lives. Perhaps I can stop by his place on 21xx Bryant Ave, Minneapolis, MN, on his birthday, (7/xx/68), with a DVD I rented on his card from Panorama Video on Dupont Ave. Maybe a porn flick. What the hell, it's his birthday.
As soon as the car fire petered out, after Particle finished their all night set, the ambulance was called to scrape up what was left of a hopeless acid casualty. Apparently, this poor chap had gotten too high and couldn't calm down. Of course, his friend had deserted him when the going got rough, and now he was flustered, fucked, and flung far from home. (Why folks can't stick together and ride out the storm when they screw themselves out is beyond me. It has to be the toughest way to find out who your friends really are.)
While Eric from Particle and I were observing the medical personal attend to the poor guy, the sheriff gave us fair warning that if he has to come out the Reunion for any other reason short of "Acts of God" again, he'll charge us $500 for overtime.
The minute the siren squad cleared the campground, an obviously wasted man comes from out of nowhere yelling at me that "Now he's going to tell the cops where he got the acid!!!!" I tried to ask him why he didn't help everybody by babysitting his pal (who he had gotten so fucked-up) until he came down, but he just kept screaming through his own curtain of acidic delusion that "Now they're going to come for me!!!! It's never going to end!!!!" I'm sure it didn't end for what may of felt to him like an eternity.
While I'm sure he spent the next nine hours holed up in his tent, guardedly awaiting the acid police to drop from the skies to take him away for questioning, I can't say that I sympathize for him. After all, he admitted that he's the one who supplied the drugs, then bravely ditched his pal when the chips ran low. Beyond that, the freedom to make choices demands that one will take responsibility for the outcome. Failing that, everyone involved suffers the sins of neglectful. And suffer they did.
On Saturday afternoon, the woman we employ to run the Family Reunion called into a private meeting. A man who wouldn't give his name approached our Head of Parking (who he assumed was the owner of the venue) claiming that he had "rock-solid proof" that the security we hired is selling drugs. He wanted, in exchange for his "proof", a princely some of our gate receipts to keep his mouth shut.
Naturally, our Head of Parking was just a bit more than disturbed by his demands. Twice more he returned to pester our Parking Liaison, thinking he was the owner of the park, once to say that he didn't want to "bankrupt the band" and once more to "see how the money was coming". Since there is no way in hell the security we hired (who are licensed, bonded and insured) was selling drugs, I told my people that I wanted to meet with him personally the next time he came up.
Unfortunately for all involved, he never did. While no judge in the land smiles upon the distribution of narcotics for profit, I would wager that their displeasure only increases upon charges of extortion. No matter the stratagem this clown set forth to get his hands on the festival's filthy lucre, I can't imagine how a grainy video featuring two of his friends, one dressed as a security guard and the other as a drug-buying hippie, would be considered "proof" in court, let alone convince me to hand him cash for his troubles. If nothing else, I would have loved to feature this blackmailer as my Old Style Zealot of the month- with my boot serving a rusty, torn can of the exalted beverage up his derriere.
Later that day, reports came in from the campground that someone was throwing axes around for fun. Upon investigation, a friend of the band who's a disc jockey by trade, met a lady at the Greyhound station on his way up to the festival. Ever the charmer, my friend invited this mysterious stranger to accompany him to the Family Reunion. If you've traveled via the great American bus line, you know that most of your fellow passengers fall into one (or all) of three categories: The elderly, the criminal or the fucking nuts. Fortunately, our friend's companion was only a combination of the latter two qualities.
By the time the sheriff arrived on the scene, she had been subdued. As for why she felt compelled to liven up the afternoon by threatening everybody with an axe, it turns out she had a good excuse: She had just been released from a mental institution when she met my friend at the bus station. Thus the sheriff didn't charge us the $500 pick-up fee.
Incidentally, this is what I appreciate about government-funded programs: If for any reason the State's mental inmates fail keep their psychopathic urges to themselves, the government will readmit them for free. Think of it as a "Sane or your money back guarantee".
There is always the distinct possibility that the axe lady was never crazy. I never looked inside her personal Schrger's box, so I can't honestly tell you if she was crazy or just plain homicidal. May God judge us all…
And judgment is what this is all about. Well, at least questionable judgment. The tie that binds the trio of stories I've illustrated for your amusement exemplify the importance of using the minimum amount of common sense when wandering off the well-beaten path of everyday behavior. So before inviting murderous mental patients, dropping four hits of acid instead of one, or passing out after you set your transmission on fire, please take the time to ask yourself: "Is this what I really want to do with my weekend?" After all, the repercussions of your choices affect everyone else around you, so use your insanity, narcotics and neglect carefully.
Drive safe, be nice to your Mother, and drink your milk… I really mean it this time!
Not to play the same card twice, but once again, I'm nominating myself for Old Style zealot of the month twice in a row. Not because I can, but because I have this great picture of the Big Wu on top of the fore-mentioned burned-out car. Fully Kreausened indeed!


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How businesses will need to embrace new modes of work, and new types of workers
By Don Peppers
Technology empowers employees today to work whenever and wherever they need, and to switch careers just as quickly. It enables customers, too, to shift loyalties and interact with companies at their convenience. Don Peppers, a leading authority on customer-focused relationship management strategies, argues that in order to survive in the future, business leaders will need to strengthen a company culture that's increasingly challenged by the dispersion of workers and the shortening attention spans of customers.
"If you don't come in on Saturday, don't even bother coming in on Sunday." This was the advice we gave new hires at Peppers & Rogers Group in 1999, when we first began hiring consultants and analysts hand over fist. We were joking, of course. Sort of.
Today, the notion that all employees must "come in" to do their jobs blows my mind. In a technology-driven world, employee productivity has never been higher, processes have never been more efficient and identifying and solving customer problems 24/7 — from just about anywhere in the world — has never been easier.
But for all the benefits that technology's blizzard of new capabilities is generating (and there are plenty more to come), managers everywhere face a perfect storm of workplace challenges:
- Workers increasingly work remotely. Look at IBM: 40 percent of its employees don't go to the office to work.
- Workers increasingly are their own bosses. By 2020, about half of all non-governmental workers in the United States will be contract workers — not permanent, full-time employees.
- Workers increasingly generate enormous value in smaller numbers. For example, when Facebook earlier this year signed a $19 billion deal to buy WhatsApp, the hugely popular texting service counted 55 employees.
Behind these workplace shifts is the fact that individuals are empowered in ways never seen before. The same technology that allows a customer to compare prices, consult friends and transact business at the frictionless speed of a smartphone app also liberates employees. Even the most junior-level worker can leap tall hierarchies in a single click. And managers of all ranks can work equally well in the office, at home or over coffee at the local Starbucks.
For workers and business leaders alike, the impact of these freedoms is profound. Where workers once spent their careers logging 40-hour weeks at one, two or perhaps a half-dozen companies, today they're always on the move, always on the clock and always thinking about their own personal "brands." Faced with an increasingly transient workforce, business leaders must rethink how they organize, equip, motivate and compensate their workers. Starting now.
A return to hunting and gathering
The employee diaspora at IBM and other companies has been in the making for more than two decades. In our 1993 book, "The One to One Future," Martha Rogers and I predicted a day when jobs required some people "to be there — somewhere — while others will be able to work mostly from their homes, without having to be anywhere." We called them "theres" and "there nots." We didn't know then how the "there" and "there not" split would develop, but I feel certain today that "there nots" will be the rule, not the exception, in the workplace of the future.
The 'there nots' will be the rule, not the exception, in the workplace of the future.
To a certain extent, our vision paralleled ancient history. Humans were all foragers once, before the rise of agriculture split us into two basic camps: owners and workers. Today, technology is rapidly blurring this dividing line as many workers return to a hunting-and-gathering existence. This time, however, humans are not foraging for meat and berries; we're searching for ideas, content and services — in essence, anything that can be monetized. And instead of eating only what the landowner lets us keep or what the manufacturer pays by the hour, foragers today directly enjoy whatever value or wealth we create.
3 emerging worker types
Three distinct types of foragers will dominate the workforce of the future. The first, and the largest, category comprises "contingent workers." These are freelancers, contractors, part-timers and temps who forage for work from task to task, employer to employer. They tend to set their own hours and can work for multiple employers at once. Contingent workers already account for 30 percent of the U.S. workforce.
And they create their own wealth. Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute, marvels at the vast numbers of people who are building careers off of web services like Instagram, now part of Facebook:
"Some of those people freelanced, or contracted, directly with the company, helping to build their own businesses. Others wrote and sold books. Others used their knowledge of Instagram to help companies manage how to use the tool effectively. Others found opportunities in technology enhancements, or security, around the tool. Yes, just 13 jobs were created, but thousands of people directly generated revenue because Instagram or WhatsApp or Tumblr or [fill in the startup] succeeded."
The no-holds-barred entrepreneur
Another class of forager will coexist with contingent workers: the entrepreneur. Many people feel compelled to create, innovate and explore, especially as the supply of full-time jobs diminishes in the age of automation. One recent global survey of 12,000 people found that more than two-thirds of young adults aspire to start their own businesses. A separate survey of U.S. adults found that workers up to the age of 64 also aspire to start their own businesses.
For businesses, the quantity of creative, innovative energy now at their disposal is intriguing and frightening. As technology continues to accelerate the rate of change, every business needs to think about harnessing this energy to reinvent itself again and again.
The personal brand manager
A third category of forager poses serious challenges for today's business leader. For all the entrepreneurial energy out there, the demand for skilled workers far outstrips the supply. Galloping automation has generated a big surplus of low-wage, low-skill workers, but many companies (even the most innovative ones) face a critical shortage of high-value, high-skill workers. I'm talking about workers whose jobs demand creativity, wisdom, judgment and empathy. To compete, businesses must teach their workers new skills. Continuously.
For today's business leader, overcoming this talent shortage is complicated by the fact that full-time employees are foraging for their own opportunities in their spare time — and it's never been easier to do. Senior and middle managers now promote their own "brands" as experts, leaders, movers and shakers whose added value transcends their current job. LinkedIn already connects these managers and information workers to new opportunities at competitive firms, client companies, suppliers and other partners. Most workers consider themselves "in the market" for a new job virtually all the time.
Inevitably, competition for top talent will spike, but higher salaries alone won't win out. Skilled workers increasingly want to buttress their skills and capabilities in order to continue maximizing their foraging opportunities. In response, business leaders will have to rely more on intrinsic motivations such as autonomy, challenge, mastery, recognition, camaraderie and a unifying sense of purpose.
The business leader's challenge: Unifying them all
In "Built to Last," Jerry Porras and Jim Collins found that perennially successful companies that have nothing in common share one key attribute: They all have pronounced and highly influential corporate cultures that infuse employees with a sense of purpose beyond profits or shareholder value. Collins and Porras described the cultures at these long-lasting companies as "almost cult-like" — so strong that a new employee who doesn't fit is "rejected like a virus."
The most important task for any business leader going forward is to cultivate, strengthen and enliven company culture.
But when the workforce is largely nomadic, the glue that culture provides can come apart. When a workforce becomes a revolving door, the sense of "us" that is so vital to success is at risk, and so is the company's future. In a tech-driven world, the late Peter Drucker's famous proclamation that "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" will prove immutable.
The most important task for any business leader going forward is to cultivate, strengthen and enliven company culture. As work becomes increasingly dispersed in time and space, and as individual customers and employees become more connected and empowered by technology, it will become more vital — and, yet, more difficult — to engage employees with a socially developed, common sense of purpose.
Technology alone can't fix the culture challenge, but it can help. Many companies use internal social networks to create and sustain a customer-oriented culture. They double, too, as the equivalent of the 20th century water cooler, a place where employees can swap stories, ideas and values. Frequent chats between the CEO and rank-and-file employees on these services about problems or suggested improvements further reinforce a sense of shared mission. The CEO who doesn't actively participate, personally, in his or her own company's employee social media discussions will soon be, quite simply, yesterday's CEO.
The future workplace calls for an entirely new breed of business leader — one whose first task each morning is to think hard about the company's mission, adapt it as needed and communicate it to a workforce whose face changes daily.


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It takes one's breath away. How can the managers of Salisbury Cathedral Cloister be so misguided in their approach to planting design? Do they really want to give one of the masterpieces of medieval European landscape architecture (1280) the character of a Victorian vicarage? The apparent aim is to hide the floral tracery of arcades behind a shrubbery, and to hide those ugly stone columns with some nice green tanalized wooden posts – even the galvanized wire does not make them beautiful. Perhaps the trouble began when some past prelate had the idea of being buried in the cloister, making his successors think the place was a boneyard. Ugh. I wish the Church of England could resolve its problems with women priests, gay priests and planting design. The solutions are obvious and I would give them my advice with free and tolerant humility. Prima facie, I suggest (1) leave the cedars, despite their historical inaccuracy (2) remove the shrubbery (3) manage the grass as even more of a flowery mead than its present condition, (4) perhaps, have an annual design for the layout of mown paths in the millefiori.
(See yesterday's post on the social use of cloister garths)
The use of cloister courts and garths for memorial plaques is fairly common in England. It can be compared to memorial plaques inside cathedrals and, of course, to the tomb gardens of Egypt, China, India and elsewhere. But it does not feel right and I think the Buddha had the right attitude when he asked for his grave to be unmarked. It was a sign of humility. Memorials smack of ostentation. But placing an engraved stone on a wall or floor is preferable to memorial stones in grass: they are often unsightly; they diminish the vegetated area; they are impure.


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During his time down under, Alexander Megos didn't "only" repeat The wheel of life, make the first ascent of the hardest route in the country, R.E.D, 9a, and repeat just about all the hard problems and routes in the Grampians. He also made a few new link-ups of his own in the Hollow Mountain Cave.
One of these link-ups could very well be the hardest boulder problem there, if it were a boulder problem that is. Or is it?
Talking to Vertical Life mag, Alex explains:
'Wheelchair' (9a+/36) starts as for the WOL [Wheel of life], but halfway through 'Sleepy Hollow' traverses into 'Stimulation' and climbs the whole of 'Stimulation' (with the exception of the first move) till its end, which is also the finish of 'Silverchair' – hence 'Wheelchair'.
Of the grade Alex says: It's hard to give it a grade. I think it's not possible to give it a boulder grade, although it's more a boulder than 'The Wheel of Life' because it has no rest. Everyone calls 'The Wheel...' 9a and I think 'Wheelchair' is harder than 'The Wheel...', I would call it 9a+. But it would be nice to see someone repeating it to give his opinion on the grade.
Alexander also made a second link-up, Stimulating Cartwheel, which he thinks is about equally difficult as The wheel..., plus a new 8B, Sultans of swing.
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AMHERST -- University of Massachusetts Football coach Charley Molnar called the $34.5 million Football Performance Center the "front porch to the university", a place from which to view all that goes on at the campus.
Molnar was one of seven who spoke at a ceremonial groundbreaking Friday for the 55,000-square foot complex upgrade that will include coaches' offices, a new locker room space, meeting rooms, athletic training facilities, a dedicated strength and conditioning facility, and a new press box at the stadium.
More than 100 people, many of them donors to the project, attended the event held in a tent outside McGuirk Stadium.
Officials say the upgrades are necessary to bring the football programs home games back to the campus.
UMass joined the Mid-American Conference last year; the conference is college football's top division. With that move, officials signed a five-year agreement to play home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro.
With the improvements to be made as part of the $34.5 million project, the team will be play at least one game in Amherst in 2014.
Having a successful football program "enables us to retain quality student athletes," said UMass athletic director John McCutcheon.
"We want to compete at a high level at everything we do," said Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, including athletics.
Subbaswamy said football has been part of the college's history for 140 years. And, he said, "We're breaking ground on our future and our next era of greatness."
State Sen. Stanley C. Rosenberg praised the project because it will bring the games back to the campus.
Rosenberg said the project has been controversial and he has heard from business people unhappy with the move away from town.
"I'm so happy we're coming home," he said, adding that he wants to see the Homecoming on campus and the marching band play on campus. "I don't mind going to Foxboro (for some games). I can't wait for some of the games come back."
This is the first of two groundbreakings Friday. In the afternoon, groundbreaking for the Basketball Champions Center will be celebrated.


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World's first tea that actually tastes like outer space
Despite all the news and media talk in recent years of the coming age of private space exploration, where civilians will be able take a trip on a space plane, the reality is that most of us are never going to get to leave the Earth's atmosphere. But for those of us who want just a taste of what it's like to be in outer space, a new Japanese company's got the just the drink.
So you're fascinated by stars, you love thinking about the vastness of the universe, yet you know tasting what outer space feels like will always be just a wish...until today, that is. Your previously unattainable wish is at the command of a mysterious company in Japan that just debuted their beverage named "Space Tea" at the Maker Faire Tokyo 2014. To recreate a taste of space as close to the real thing as possible, the creators of this special beverage did hours of research, asking astronauts who had actually been up there at the International Space Station to describe what outer space tasted like, and the consensus was that it tasted like raspberry. With all the research "data," scientists went to work, and after endless hours in the lab, they came up with Space Tea, the first known tea inspired by the final frontier. One sip, and you're sure to feel like an astronaut just back from a spacewalk, even though others may think you're just a space cadet sipping on a phony raspberry tea. But who cares what others think!
Tea bags are available in packs of 20 at the Space Tea online shop for 2160 yen, or about 20 dollars. Plans are to also make the tea available at the Uchu-Cafe (Universe Cafe) in Omote-Sando, right next to Harajuku. That's quite a deal for a taste of space.
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Lehman College has received leading marks from two national publications for the College's affordability, accessibility and research, among other categories.
Business Insider ranked Lehman College #3 in the nation when scored according to President Barack Obama's new plan to help students pay for college. The Obama administration proposes a rating system that would help determine which students receive additional financial aid. Students at higher-ranked schools would be eligible for more help.
That rating system comprises three elements: accessibility, affordability, and outcomes. Business Insider calculated its top colleges using data from the U.S. Department of Education and 2011 statistics from colleges.
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Lehman College also received high marks from Washington Monthly for its graduate programs. The publication, a non-profit magazine focusing on U.S. politics and government, named Lehman to its list of top 100 master's universities. Washington Monthly ranked Lehman #56, based on criteria such as social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give back to their nation.)
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"Each of these ratings makes clear that Lehman College is succeeding in its mission of providing a quality, affordable education in a supportive environment for its students," says Dr. Anny Morrobel-Sosa, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. "At the same time, the College is evolving into one of New York's premiere centers for research and scholarly work in several disciplines that serve our region and the global community."


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Complete with collared neckline with full front buttons. Long sleeve with buttoned cuffs. It is also a nursing & a wudhu' friendly blouse that is suitable for mommies or any women out there who want to be a lovely yet a stylish person. It is also suitable for casual or formal wear to work or for leisure activity as well.
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