relationship skills

One of the themes I’ve covered repeatedly through the years has had to do with the need for all of us to become effective team players.  True, there have been times when egos have gotten in the way and I’ve found myself in fairly dysfunctional groups, but for all that, I have to say that collaboration very often yields great results. In fact, the vast majority of team projects in which I get involved these days are wonderful collaborations among clients, architects and general contractors as well as (depending on the project) interior designers, landscape architects, lighting designers and more.  Of all those practitioners,