“I’ve never found that my own light has been dimmed by lighting someone else’s candle,” said the late, great designer Zeev Aram.

I first heard this quote from Paul Monaghan of AHMM when my co-host Rachel Birchmore and I had a conversation with him on the theme of generosity for our podcast Coaches On The Couch, and it is one that stayed with me.

We were talking to Paul about generosity because it is a rarely discussed leadership quality, and one we thought he would know something about. Many of the architects we both work with, or know, started their careers at AHMM and remain on good terms with Paul and his fellow founders.

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