When we talk about firm culture, our first thoughts lead us to a busy studio full of staff working with dozens of clients. Don’t we need a firm full of people before we can have a firm culture? What if we work alone, as many of you do? Do you have a culture? If so, […]
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 […]
EA105: The All-New EntreArchitect Academy [Podcast]
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your holiday and have started your new year with enthusiasm, determination and focus. It’s going to be a great 2016. I’m sure you are noticing a few changes around here. We’ve been very hard at work during the year-end break. Today on the EntreArchitect Podcast, I am going to […]
Welcome to the All-New EntreArchitect
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your holiday and have started your new year with enthusiasm, determination and focus. It’s going to be a great 2016. I’m sure you are noticing a few changes around here. We’ve been very hard at work during the year-end break. Welcome to the All-New EntreArchitect The all-new EntreArchitect is […]
Hard Work + Consistency = Success
100 Days, 100 Photographs This past Saturday marked 100 Instagram posts in a row for my son James. He’s a talented photographer and one hundred days ago he decided to launch an account on Instagram, dedicate it to fine artful photography and post every day. Each morning he rises at 5:00am, edits his selection and […]
EA093: The Anatomy of a Successful Small Business with Crown Point Cabinetry CEO Brian Stowell [Podcast]
Last week on the podcast, I shared my 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture, the same presentation I shared at the recent AIA CRAN Symposium. I proposed that if you learn how to execute on each of the 12 steps, you will be a successful architect, with a profitable business leading to creating more […]