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Tag: grit

BOOK REVIEW | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: Angela Lee Duckworth

September 16, 2017April 24, 2025

After hearing Angela on a TED talk podcast I was interested in reading her book - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: Angela Lee Duckworth. I found the first few chapters interesting but felt that after about 70-80 pages I had gotten the main points of the book. I perceived and read to the end, […]

Posted in Blog, Book Reviews, BusinessTagged angela lee duckworth, grit

Recent Writing

  • From Design to Demand: Key Strategies for Marketing Your Design Firm
    Design firms thrive or falter based on their ability to attract new clients or secure projects from existing ones. All design firms require the ability to market their business to… Read more: From Design to Demand: Key Strategies for Marketing Your Design Firm
  • Reviving Landscape Architecture: Attracting New Students
    Article by Damian Holmes, Founder & Editor of World Landscape Architecture Recent years have shown an anecdotal decline in landscape architecture enrollments, influenced by factors such as economic downturns, rising… Read more: Reviving Landscape Architecture: Attracting New Students
  • Op-Ed: Climate Change Action Beyond Projects
    Over recent years, there has been a beneficial shift in the focus of landscape architects to reduce the impact of climate change worldwide through the design of landscape-led projects, which… Read more: Op-Ed: Climate Change Action Beyond Projects
  • Why your design business needs systems
    Regardless of their size, your design firms require a set of systems that provide a defined series of workflows and decision-making processes. These can be informal or formal systems that… Read more: Why your design business needs systems
  • Activation to greater green spaces
    I wrote this op-ed as I had started to see many new projects that are largely “activation” within cities rather than addressing the environmental issues. More and more public spaces… Read more: Activation to greater green spaces
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