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Roundtable Review: Sales & Selling

Survival and growth in business depend on sales and selling, but, for many, the process is exhausting, emotionally fraught and an unwelcome distraction from the satisfaction of doing the work we’re required to sell.

Brick & Wonder - November 10, 2021

  1. Workshops

    Workshop Review: Creative Feedback

    Giving and receiving creative feedback, especially about creative work, is a nuanced, challenging process. When you're in a position as a...

    Brick & Wonder - October 19, 2021

  2. Roundtables

    Roundtable Review: Goal Setting

    Like the checklists that pilots use to keep planes in the air, the simple act of setting and working towards goals belies the complex...

    Brick & Wonder - September 29, 2021

  3. Workshops

    Workshop Review: Helping Your Clients Move

    There's a reason people associate moving house with very high levels of stress: it is stressful. So, when a client is going through this...

    Brick & Wonder - September 28, 2021

  4. Perspectives Roundtables

    Roundtable Review: Supercharging Business Creativity

    Research shows that design-driven S&P 500 companies outperform the overall index by up to 228%. The best-performing companies use creativity...

    Brick & Wonder - July 28, 2021

  5. Workshops

    Workshop Review: The Future of Modular Architecture

    We are on the cusp of a transformative change in the way we design and build our cities. Architect David Wallance proposes a...

    Brick & Wonder - July 8, 2021

  6. Roundtables

    Roundtable Review: (Re)Building Office Culture

    After more than a year of remote work, and following a largely successful vaccine rollout in urban centers, teams are finally now...

    Brick & Wonder - June 28, 2021

  7. Perspectives

    Optimizing Supply Chains for Freedom

    A recent headline in The Wall Street Journal summed up the state of the global supply chain as a “mess, everywhere you look.”

    Chelsea Thatcher - June 17, 2021

  8. Site Tours

    Virtual Tour: At The Luss House

    On Thursday June 3rd, we took Brick & Wonder members and their guests on a virtual tour of contemporary art exhibition, At The Luss House....

    Brick & Wonder - June 10, 2021

  9. Roundtables

    Roundtable Review: Expanding Business Ownership

    As a business grows, it becomes increasingly critical to retain senior team members with deep, institutional knowledge, valuable client and...

    Brick & Wonder - June 10, 2021

  10. Member Profiles

    In Profile – Gerald Luss

    An often overlooked icon in modern architectural history, Gerald Luss’s family home (1955) in Ossining, NY, has regained global attention...

    Brick & Wonder - June 8, 2021

  11. Workshops

    Workshop Review: Overcoming Self Limiting Beliefs

    Self-Limiting Beliefs are the unhealthy thoughts, intuitions, feelings, statements, and structures that keep you from achieving your desired...

    Brick & Wonder - May 28, 2021

  12. Member Collaborations

    Meet Leah, Owner @ Settepani, Harlem

    Our volunteer design team, led by Jordi Biosca, Design Director at Brick & Wonder member, Lang Studio, visited Settepani in Harlem this week...

    Brick & Wonder - May 12, 2021

  13. Member Collaborations

    Meet Duane, Owner @ NBHD Brulee, Harlem

    Our volunteer design team, led by Brick & Wonder member Architect Nina Cooke John, visited NBHD Brulee in Harlem this..

    Brick & Wonder - May 12, 2021

  14. Member Collaborations

    Open Restaurants Fundraise

    Brick & Wonder has teamed up with Design Corps to help two Harlem restaurants, Settepani and NBHD Brulee, build outdoor dining..

    Brick & Wonder - May 5, 2021

  15. Workshops

    Workshop Review: Digital Advertising for Small Businesses

    Digital Advertising can be a great way to build brand awareness, generate inbound leads, and to support content marketing campaigns....

    Brick & Wonder - May 4, 2021

  16. Perspectives

    The Ultimate Dream Home Design Checklist

    You can picture it in your mind: your dream home - a custom dwelling built to suit the way you live your life. Now, how do you take that...

    Brick & Wonder - April 27, 2021

  17. Workshops

    Building Your Dream Home – Pt 3 Review

    On Thursday 4/22 we held the last of our three-part series on Building Your Dream Home, in partnership with the Financial Times. Once a...

    Brick & Wonder - April 27, 2021

  18. Workshops

    Building Your Dream Home – Pt 2 Review

    On Thursday 4/15 we held the second of our three-part series on Building Your Dream Home, in partnership with the Financial Times. Once a...

    Brick & Wonder - April 20, 2021

  19. Workshops

    Building Your Dream Home – Pt 1 Review

    On Thursday 4/8 we kicked off our three-part series on Building Your Dream Home, in partnership with the Financial Times. The series began...

    Brick & Wonder - April 12, 2021

  20. Roundtables

    Roundtable Review – On Time, On Budget

    Regardless of the discipline, delivering projects on-time and on-budget is always difficult. When the project is a building, with many...

    Brick & Wonder - March 29, 2021

  21. Roundtables

    Roundtable Review: Hiring & Firing

    Whether hiring for growth, for a niche skillset, for diversity, or for a new strategic initiative, the process can be time-consuming and...

    Brick & Wonder - March 9, 2021

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