Mark R. LePage, Author at EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects Page

Nov 27 2018

How Systems Support More Success in Your Business
(and Freedom in Your Life)

Back in the early days of my coaching business, I didn’t place much importance on systems. They simply didn’t seem necessary, and they certainly didn’t strike me as something that would contribute to my success. Plus, creating systems just felt like more work, a way to waste time I didn’t really have. That changed as […]

Nov 20 2018

5 Principles of Servant Leadership for Small Firm Architects

Forever Changed as a Leader Late one winter night, under a bare bulb in an empty under-heated DC university dorm room I read Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree; a book that influenced my approach to leading others from that night forward. Earlier that day, our hosts at the 1992 American Institute of Architecture Students […]

Nov 13 2018

How to Rewrite the Story of Our Profession

No More Starving Artist With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. New firms are launched every day without proper planning, without […]

Oct 23 2018

The EntreArchitect Profit Challenge

A Quick & Dirty Version You have read this from me before here at EntreArchitect Blog… Profit, Then Art. Build a profitable business and you’ll have the time and resources to do the work you love. You will be happier. You will be less stressed. You will have stronger relationships with your family and friends. Money […]

Oct 16 2018

EntreArchitect
Behind The Design 010:
House on Kona Coast by
Dynerman Architects

EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a continuing blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. Want to have YOUR best work featured here at EntreArchitect? Click here to learn how. House on Kona Coast by Dynerman Architects Project Name House on Kona Coast Project Location Kona, HI Firm Name […]

Oct 09 2018

They Try to Publish…
And Thus They Perish

Starting out in architecture on your own, not as an intern, or a middle career employee, those of us who want personal expression in design see two venues: competitions that are open to anyone or publication of what you have done. You know you have the chops. You are convinced that what you do has […]