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TRANSACT IONS HARLEY ELLIS DEVEREAUX ACQUIRES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA-BASED ARCHITECTURE FIRM DEEMS LEWIS MCKINLEY Harley Ellis Devereaux (Hot Firm # 23 for 2016) announced that Deems Lewis McKinley has merged with HED. A recognized leader in K-12 schools design, DLM brings more than 55 years of experience in the design of educational facilities across California. With offices in Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco, DLM further diversifies HED’s 380-person design expertise and expands the firm geographically. From Northern to Southern California and beyond, DLM’s designs have advanced the world of hundreds of local communities since 1959. DLM's notable projects across California include a masterplan and complete campus replacement of the CHPS Demonstration De Anza High School in Richmond; a new Performing Arts Center for Palo Alto High School; a complete campus replacement for Edna Maguire Elementary School in Mill Valley; a new Student Center for Monta Vista High School in Sunnyvale; and a complete design of the new Susan B. Anthony School in Daly City. “The combination of DLM’s experience and reputation in the Bay Area and Sacramento and HED’s extensive K-12 schools portfolio will provide our clients with an even broader range of services, thought leadership, and design excellence,” says J. Peter Devereaux, CEO of HED. “We are looking forward to merging the talents of our two teams and are excited to be part of a very talented studio with deep resources,” says Wallace Gordon, president and CEO of DLM.

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BELCAN ACQUIRES THE KEMTAH GROUP Belcan, LLC , a global supplier of engineering, technical recruiting, and IT services, announced that it acquired the Kemtah Group. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kemtah provides a complete suite of IT support services. “The acquisition of Kemtah greatly enhances our government IT services business, which has been rapidly growing since our purchase of Intercom Federal Systems five months ago,” says Lance Kwasniewski, CEO of Belcan. “Kemtah’s deep domain knowledge and outstanding relationships will provide Belcan with increased capabilities to support our existing and new customers.” “Belcan brings exciting growth opportunities and a breadth of IT and engineering resources to complement and expand Kemtah’s capabilities,” says Steve Wade, CEO at Kemtah. “Kemtah will be a great fit within Belcan’s government IT services segment, and should benefit from the added software engineering and cyber security we will be able to offer our customers. We believe we will see immediate synergies from the combination of these two companies.” “Kemtah is the fourth acquisition Belcan has completed since AEI acquired the company 18 months ago,” says David Rowe, managing partner of AEI and chairman of Belcan. “Each addition has greatly enhanced Belcan’s product and service offerings, while also extending our reach and presence in the marketplace, allowing us to continue to deliver excellent outcomes to our clients.”

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this will create a lot of problems for you later! You cannot be too picky when it comes to adding team members. The wrong ones won't carry their weight – or worse – be a nega- tive force that drags down the entire ship. Pick the right people in the first place! 4)Keep yourself calm. Remember, nothing good, when it comes to leadership, will ever come from you losing your temper! No matter what is happening – no matter how bad or ugly or stupid it is – you have got to remain calm. You set the example for everyone else. And if you are "losing it," how can you expect them to keep it together? 5)Keep yourself "up." Depressed people don't inspire anyone. They just depress other people. Depression is like a disease you can catch. Again, my personal philosophy is that it doesn't do me any good to be depressed so why do it? At a minimum, even if we as leaders feel it we cannot show it. We have to be optimistic beacons for hope and pos- sibility. Always. 6)Treat others how they want to be treated. That isn't treat others how YOU want to be treated. You may have a completely different value system from them. Or, you may have a completely different personality from them. What matters is them and their per- ceptions. Not yours! This is the one problem with the golden rule. The point is this: If you want to be a better leader, there is always something YOU can do. Don't wait for the company to come up with a leadership development program. Look in the mirror and get started immediately!! MARK ZWEIG is Zweig Group’s chairman and founder. Contact him at mzweig@zweiggroup.com.

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