Managing in Recession

Recession Management. We are entering a sustained period of economic recession that will place considerable strain on the management of professional firms. The RIBA commissioned James Cooke and John Toppin to write a monthly column in their Journal giving advice to the leaders of architectural firms. It became clear to us that the experience of architects was largely common to most areas of established professionalism and so we have published them here for general use amplified by a series of papers designed to help you deal with the difficult management issues ahead. Please use them and don't hesitate to contact me for any futher help.

  1. Coping With Fear
  2. Maintaining Balance
  3. First things First: Setting out the Plan - Part I
  4. First things First: Setting out the Plan - Part II
  5. Making it Happen
  6. Building an Awareness Campaign
  7. The Awareness Campaign
  8. Sectorisation
  9. The Marketing Cascade
  1. The Forward Planner
  2. The Bid Development Unit (BDU)
  3. Investing to Change
  4. Presenting the Bid
  5. The Discipline Framework
  6. The 21 Questions
  7. Two Short Notes
  8. Structuring the Presentation
  9. More about Presentations
  10. Curriculum Vitae