| Dedication |
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| Introduction |
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Setting Goals Is Easy--Finding Them Later Is the Hard Part |
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Knowing Where You Are Going |
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2 | (17) |
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Miriello Grafico: Managing Employee Expectations |
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3 | (4) |
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SamataMason: Emulating Client Successes |
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7 | (4) |
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Liska + Associates: Keeping the Big Picture in Sight |
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11 | (4) |
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Rigsby Design: A Constant State of Becoming |
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15 | (4) |
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Reputation--Boost or Burden? |
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Can You Hang Yourself on the Hook You've Created for Clients to Grab Onto? |
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19 | (16) |
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Cahan & Associates: Putting Your Reputation to Work |
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20 | (4) |
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Landor Associates: How to Defeat Complacency |
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24 | (4) |
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Bull Rodger: Reputation as a Control Factor |
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28 | (3) |
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Michael Schwab Studio: Sticking with a Good Thing |
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31 | (4) |
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35 | (52) |
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Running a Business That Doesn't Eat Your Creativity for Lunch |
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Staying Sharp Creatively and Administratively |
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36 | (18) |
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Gee + Chung Design: Listening to One's Heart |
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37 | (5) |
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Mirko Ilic Corp: Uncompromising Creative Ideals |
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42 | (4) |
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Sagmeister, Inc.: Find Balance Between Work and Life |
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46 | (4) |
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Terry Marks Design: Seven Postulates for Good Business |
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50 | (4) |
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You Can't Paddle If You're at the Helm |
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Building on the Star Quality of Your Good Name |
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54 | (17) |
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Kiku Obata & Company: Taking Turns at the Plate |
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55 | (4) |
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Trickett & Webb: Lots of Small Pyramids |
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59 | (4) |
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Chase Design Group: Delegation, Finally |
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63 | (4) |
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Ted Wright Illustration: Let the Work Do the Talking |
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67 | (4) |
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How Not to Art Direct Your Staff to Death |
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Being a Good Manager and Inspirer at the Same Time |
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71 | (16) |
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Watts Design: Everyone's an Art Director |
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72 | (4) |
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Fossil, Inc.: Directing Art and Hearts |
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76 | (4) |
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Vrontikis Design Office: The Gentle Leader |
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80 | (3) |
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Willoughby Design Group: Respect, Perspective, and Stepping Away |
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83 | (4) |
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87 | (38) |
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Together, Wing to Wing and Oar to Oar |
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When You Know How Your Business Partner Looks in Pajamas |
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88 | (18) |
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Richardson or Richardson: Dissolving an Office |
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89 | (4) |
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Parham Santana: Together, Day In and Day Out |
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93 | (4) |
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Number 17: How to Stay Best Friends |
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97 | (4) |
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Sayles Graphic Design: Keeping the Business Alive |
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101 | (5) |
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Design or Get Out of the Way |
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How Not to Knock Heads with People Who Are Nearly as Smart as You Are |
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106 | (19) |
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BBK: A Laissez-Faire Partnership |
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107 | (5) |
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AdamsMorioka: Divide and Conquer |
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112 | (4) |
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Pressley Jacobs: a design partnership: Reshaping Management |
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116 | (4) |
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Pentagram: To Each His or Her Own Specialty |
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120 | (5) |
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125 | (54) |
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How to Behave When You're the Latest, Greatest Thing |
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126 | (16) |
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Concrete: Blind Optimism and Success |
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127 | (4) |
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VSA Partners: Leveraging Growth through Notoriety |
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131 | (4) |
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Jennifer Sterling Design: Ignoring Fame Altogether |
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135 | (3) |
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Alexander Isley Inc.: Broadening One's Base |
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138 | (4) |
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This Land Is My Land; This Land Is My Land |
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Opening an Office in Another City or Country |
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142 | (18) |
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Turner Duckworth: A Trans-Atlantic Friendship |
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143 | (4) |
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Desgrippes Gobe Group: Logical Worldwide Expansion |
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147 | (4) |
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Johnson & Wolverton: Getting Started Overseas |
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151 | (5) |
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Selbert Perkins Design: An Office on Both Coasts |
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156 | (4) |
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How to Get Out of the Blocks Quickly |
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160 | (19) |
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WINK: Becoming Vested in Yourself |
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161 | (5) |
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Archrival: How to Cause a Stir |
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166 | (5) |
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no.parking: Fueled by Naivete and Hope |
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171 | (3) |
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Dotzero Design: When Is the Right Time to Start? |
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174 | (5) |
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179 | (56) |
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Recovering from the Loss of a Significant Client |
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180 | (17) |
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Lippa Pearce Design: How to Be Irreplaceable |
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181 | (4) |
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Colby & Partners: Deal with It and Move On |
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185 | (4) |
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KMS Team: On Being Prepared |
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189 | (5) |
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Kendra Power Design & Communication, Inc.: Learning from Loss |
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194 | (3) |
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Recovering from the Loss of a Significant Creative |
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197 | (19) |
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EM2 Design: Making Staff Feel Completely at Home |
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199 | (4) |
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The Richards Group: When to Hold on and When to Let Go |
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203 | (4) |
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Waters Design: The Unthinkable and Its Aftermath |
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207 | (5) |
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Bailey Lauerman: Preparation and Prevention |
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212 | (4) |
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Filing a Revised Flight Plan with Clients and Staff |
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216 | (19) |
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KINETIK Communication Graphics/Kitchen [K]: Launching a Dream |
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217 | (5) |
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Designkitchen: Sharpening Focus on Core Strengths |
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222 | (4) |
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226 | (5) |
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Melvaer&Lien: Presenting a Brand-New Face |
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231 | (4) |
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235 | (1) |
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It's My Party and I'll Fly If I Want To |
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Leaving One Firm and Starting Another |
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236 | (1) |
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Mitre Design: A Firm Splits in Two |
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237 | (4) |
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erowe design: A Fledgling Firm Owner Reflects |
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241 | (4) |
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Art Chantry: On Leaving One's Stomping Grounds |
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245 | (4) |
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Bo Bothe/Savage Design Group: On Not Leaving |
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249 | (3) |
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To Boldly Go Where No Firm Has Gone Before |
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Breaking Into New Areas of Business |
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252 | (1) |
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Hornall Anderson Design Works: Changing In-House Culture |
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253 | (4) |
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LogoLounge, Inc./Gardner Design: How to Start a Second Business |
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257 | (5) |
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UNO Hispanic Advertising + Design: The Benefits of a Very Defined Niche |
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262 | (5) |
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Wired/Plunkett + Kuhr: Reevaluating Success |
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