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ON THE MOVE PELOTON LAND SOLUTIONS INC. ELECTS SHARE- HOLDERS AND ASSOCIATES Peloton Land Solu- tions Inc. , one of the fastest growing consult- ing firms in Texas, has elected two new associ- ate principals as shareholders and named five employees as associates to its ever-growing roster. With Peloton since 2011, Frisco op- erations manager Marc Paquette and Fort Worth-based program manager Jonathan Ragsdale , who started with Peloton in 2010, are now shareholders of the company. “We continue to retain amazing talent and want to make sure they are recognized. Jonathan and Marc both set a high bar as team leaders who strive for excellence in client service, and continually look for ways to offer creative solu- tions to their respective lines of business,” said Peloton President and CEO Aric Head. Newly-elected Fort Worth associates are Tim Whitefield and Brad Sicard . Both with Pelo- ton since 2012, Whitefield leads Peloton’s hy- drology and hydraulics group, while Sicard is a project manager in Peloton’s rapidly grow- ing site civil practice. Austin-based associ- ates are project manager Jonathan Fleming ,

base that spans most of Alcoa’s major mar- kets, including construction and commercial transportation. Highly respected by customers for his expertise in the application of industrial Internet solutions, his insights are expected to help shape the expansion of Alcoa’s digitiza- tion, 3-D printing, and other additive manufac- turing innovations. “Karl Tragl is the ideal executive to lead our Transportation and Construction Solutions businesses as they pursue a wide variety of growth opportunities worldwide,” said Klaus Kleinfeld, Alcoa chairman and CEO. “Hav- ing led a highly successful global automation technology business that served the construc- tion and commercial transportation industries, Tragl will build on Alcoa’s strong innovation edge to drive profitable growth into new inter- national markets. He also brings knowledge and experience that will be invaluable to Al- coa’s current initiatives to tap the tremendous potential of additive manufacturing and digiti- zation for our businesses and our customers.”

with Peloton since 2013, and project manager Paulo Misi who joined Peloton in 2014. Also newly elected as associate is Frisco-based project manager Erik Hinklin , with Peloton for two years. “Every one of these individuals brings a height- ened level of professionalism, energy, and enthusiasm to Peloton and our clients every day they walk through the door. I am extremely proud of what we are accomplishing together,” Head stated. ALCOA NAMES KARL TRAGL PRESIDENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND CONSTRUCTION SOLU- TIONS GROUP Lightweight metals leader Alcoa announced that Karl Tragl will become presi- dent of the company’s Transportation and Construction Solutions Group. He succeeds José Drummond, who resigned from Alcoa to become CEO of a Brazilian company. Tragl joins Alcoa from Bosch Rexroth AG, Bosch’s $6 billion automation solutions com- pany, where he has held the role of chief ex- ecutive officer since 2010. While there, he grew revenues significantly across a customer

into your office, how you engage with staff, how you run your meetings, and what your day-to-day routines might be doing to stifle or stagnate your thinking. “Routines sometimes afford us a comfort level, but they also inhibit creativity and the flow of creative energy.” Integrating the financial management staff into the way you approach your project plans might create a new approach to the work. Just because they play with numbers all day does not mean they aren’t able to offer a bit of “non-constrained, creative thinking” that could be transformative. Implement “Creative Tension” into your operation by asking each staff member to prepare a 10-minute presentation on a project, and to deliver the presentation in front of the entire office. After their presentation, colleagues can comment on the presentation, the work, the design, the approach, and in this safe environment, all comments are OK. During these weekly sessions, colleagues offer solutions to the problems that were found. What do you gain in this process? The presentations can shed light on areas where someone might need help. This exercise also shows how staff responds to criticism, and how they respond to hearing solutions. In the process, your staff improves, and that’s good for the client. So it’s a new year. What are you doing to energize your firm and increase its profitability? TED MAJIEJKA is a Zweig Group financial and management consultant. Contact him at tmaziejka.com.

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suitable profit for this kind of work. From a financial perspective, we wanted to drive most project types to 20 percent profit, including this line of business. I challenged the PM to come up with a way to approach these projects. He, along with two architects- in-training, were given eight hours to devise a way to transform this line of business. Skeptically, the PM went off to brainstorm this process. Eight hours later, the two trainees had created a way to transform the older approach through technology and process to provide the “test fits” at a 20 percent profit. New ways of thinking might not always be popular because they challenge old thought processes. But by creating a new approach, we re-energized a line of business. “New thoughts, new approaches, and a new perspective might be as simple as altering your view, turning your seat around, looking at the work effort from a different vantage point, and creating in a different method.” CREATE A NEW PERSPECTIVE AND ENERGY! New thoughts, new ap- proaches, and a new perspective might be as simple as al- tering your view, turning your seat around, looking at the work effort from a different vantage point, and creating in a different method. Routines sometimes afford us a comfort level, but they also inhibit creativity and the flow of creative energy. So examine what you do each day, when you come

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