On Friday, Tim and Wil had an argument about competences and responsibility. I don’t know the entire story with all background, but at least some ideas. Tim is in the office since it started. He and Michael were collaborators at Frank Gehry. The office should be called Maltzan & Williams or something. It’s called Michael Maltzan Architecture. Tim runs the office, he is the project manager with enormous dedication to bring design ideas to live as built projects. He knows what he’s doing for the office. Like a marriage one is depending on the other. Wil started about the same time as me. He worked there before, I don’t know how frequent exactly, at least occasionally for a longer time. Before he started three months ago he was working for NBBJ with Susan on a competition. That’s how I know him. Susan spoke very impressed and enthusiastic about his creativity and the way he’s approaching a project. Now he is a co-worker of mine. I learned that he is extremely self-determined convinced of himself. I think I rarely met someone like him. He is not only talking like so many others to put themselves in an interesting position, he has actually a lot to offer. But the balance is small and I think he takes it sometimes too far. So Wil has the position of a creative centre. He is generating ideas and therefore at the very beginning of every project. He promotes the ideas for potential projects and is responsible for public relation work. What caused the argument was that Wil makes sure his name is always prominently positioned in relation to projects he’s working on and within the office team. Tim on the otherside receives in these applications, statements etc. whatever is on the table through some office paper. Tim made a point that you’re starting a process dividing a team when you’re trying to use your position against others. Whereas in a successful project everybody’s contribution reflects the same importance. I don’t know if Wil fully understands that. I think sometimes he is too focused on himself. He prefers to be next to Michael rather than just part of a team. And there are people who have a problem with that. If you are playing competition within a team, you have to make sure the rest of the team understands the competition. For this office I assume Tim knows very well what it means. And I assume Wil probably not.