Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind Hok Hardcover -
by Patrick Macleamy
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Offers architects and creative services professionals exclusive insights and strategies for success from the former CEO of HOK.
Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind HOK tells the history of one of the largest design firms in the world and draws lessons from it that can help other architects, interior designers, urban planners, and creative services professionals grow bigger or better. Former HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy shares the revolutionary strategies HOK's founders deployed to create a brand-new type of architecture firm. He pulls no punches, revealing the triple crisis that almost bankrupted HOK and describes how any firm can survive and thrive.
Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm tells the inside story of many of HOK's most iconic buildings, including the National Air and Space Museum, Moscone Convention Center, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Houston Galleria, and the reimagined LaGuardia Airport. Each chapter conveys lessons learned from HOK's successes--and failures--including:
- The importance of diversifying to depression-and-recession-proof your firm
- The benefit of organizing your firm around specialized leaders and project types
- The difference between leading and managing your people
- The value of simple financial metrics to ensure your firm's health and profitability
- The "run toward trouble" strategy which prevents problems from ballooning
MacLeamy delivers his advice via inspirational stories, such as how HOK survived when its home office in St. Louis went up in flames; and humorous stories, such as the time an HOK executive was mistaken for royalty on a trip to Saudi Arabia. In this tell-all guide, the driven architecture or design professional will find the tools needed to evolve or grow any firm.
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- Title Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind Hok
- Author Patrick Macleamy
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- ISBN 9781119685302 / 1119685303
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.7 in (23.62 x 18.54 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum - Employees
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019053600
- Dewey Decimal Code 720.92
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