AMI Books

AMI BOOKS & REPORTS

• Professional Issues and Trends Update for 2006... And What To Do About Them
  AMI's new report shows that CEO's at design and engineering feeling pressure around finding new hires, leveraging technology, and globalization issues. What action can they take? Download this report and see what responses AMI recommends.
  
  
• State of the Profession (1998) Free download
  Louis L. Marines and Stu Rose, Ph.D.
  In fall 2009, AMI will issue a new report based on the current A/E/C Futures Research Project being conducted with FMI Corporation and a wide range of participants from the industry. The A/E/C Futures Project is looking at the future of the industry, and creating scenarios for use by design firms in strategic and scenario planning. In the meantime, download AMI's classic 1998 study of the future of the industry. This book contains detailed interviews with the CEOs of architecture, engineering, construction and related design firms and their predictions for where the industry would be in 2020. Many of their predictions have already happened, and others are in progress. Free.
  
  Building Your Learning Organization:
  Competetive Advantage for the 21st Century
  This step-by-step guidebook to turning your firm into a learning organization was the result of a learning organization charrette organized by AMI and ACEC (American Counsel of Engineering Companies). Fourteen representatives from architecture and engineering firms committed to learning and education participated in the process with AMI and ACEC, which culminated in this practical guidebook. (Purchasing Information)
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  Discovery: A Search for New Models of Practice
  Why do design firms stick with a business model that pushes them relentlessly towards becoming a "commodity"? How can design firms learn to survive with growing competitive threats from outside, and within, the A/E industry? AMI and 23 design professionals spent two years searching for the New Models of the Design Firm that would respond to these and other challenges faced by A/E firms.

BOOKS

Books from our faculty.

• Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang on to Your Most Valuable Talent
  Leigh Branham
  More than 85% of managers believe employees leave because they have been pulled away by "more pay" or "better opportunity." Yet, more than 80 percent of employees say it was "push" factors related to poor management practices or toxic cultures that drove them out. This gaping disparity between belief and reality keeps organizations from addressing the costly problems of employee disengagement and regrettable turnover with on-target solutions. The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave gives readers a deeper understanding of why conventional exit interviewing doesn't work, and what organizations can do to identify, prevent, and correct the root causes of these problems.
  
  
• The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It's Too Late
  Leigh Branham
  "Today's worker shortage is painful enough, but compounded by other employment realities--resignations on short notice, sudden disappearances by new hires, through-the-roof recruitment costs, associated customer and staff disruptions--it's enough to make anyone handling personnel feel as if they're in a war. That's exactly the premise advanced by employee-retention specialist Leigh Branham, whose Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business offers a very workable plan for victory in a workforce battle with no immediate end in sight."
  —Howard Rothman
  
  
• Admit it! 21 Things You Already Know but Apparently Have Forgotten Regarding Client Service
  Craig Galati
  When did delivering mediocre client service become acceptable? It didn't! Then why do so many professional service firms fail to deliver excellent client service? Craig Galati gives you 21 reminders that will make your clients say "wow!"
  
  
• A Man in Transition: Reflections on Relationships, Leadership, and Life
  Craig Galati
  Craig Galati discusses, from a deeply personal perspective, the joys and difficulties of transition in both career and personal life. He explores such far-ranging and universal themes as commitment, intention, selflessness, authenticity and the power of caring with a keen eye and a deft touch. Clearly comfortable in the midst of his own transitions, Craig takes us on a journey that ultimately becomes our own.