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Apr 03 2018

What Was I Thinking?
Four Lessons in Telling the Truth

My First Assignment Many years ago, before Annmarie and I started our residential architecture firm, I was a project manager with Kaeyer, Garment & Davidson Architects in Mt. Kisco, New York. I worked very closely with the senior partner at the time, Dick Kaeyer. My first assignment as Project Manager was a major addition and […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: #ArchiTalks, Business, Leadership · Tagged: internship, leadership, Project Management, telling the truth

Apr 05 2016

How to Develop a Strong Culture at Your Architecture Firm

A Culture at Your Architecture Firm Will Make or Break Your Firm As your small firm grows beyond its infancy of the sole practitioner and you develop a strong team, the culture of your firm will evolve. The different personalities and experiences brought to your firm will mix and a firm culture will develop; with or […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business, Leadership · Tagged: Architecture, Business Plans for Architects, culture, culture statement, leadership, Teams

Mar 28 2016

How to Establish an Orientation Process for New Employees in Architecture

For this final week of March here at EntreArchitect.com, where throughout the month we have been sharing content on the theme of Leadership, we are sharing a great guest post from earlier last year by Norbert Lemermeyer of Architecture + Business. Establish an Orientation for New Employees The following outlines the standard orientation for a new […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Architects, Architecture, Employees, hiring, leadership, orientation process

Mar 15 2016

5 Principles of Servant Leadership

Successful Leadership as an Architect 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 […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Architects, Architecture, leadership, servant leadership, Success

Jul 27 2015

EntreArchitect 2.0

The older we get, the more we discover the true value of our time. There is little more valuable than each moment of our lives. Minute by minute, the story of our life unfolds. Most everything else is renewable; money, relationships, companies… it can all be earned, reclaimed or rebuilt, but with each click of […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Announcements · Tagged: Business, Entrepreneur Architect Academy, leadership, life, Success

Jul 01 2013

Eight Independent Architects Taking the Lead

These past weeks, before and following the AIA Convention in Denver, I have heard from many architects seeking solutions to the crisis in which we architects find ourselves. Many small firm architects and sole proprietors have declared Repositioning a failure before it has even begun. This August will mark my twentieth year in this profession. […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Architects, entrepreneur architects, leadership

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