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Merry Christmas 2018

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7 Steps to a Happy Work Week as a Small Firm Architect

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Every magazine and blog is running an article about how to plan for 2018. This quiet time would clear my mind and prepare me for the “chaos” that is running a small firm architecture studio. I then review my responsibilities as administrator of the firm, as well as my responsibilities as a husband and dad. Scan Email.

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Using Slack for Your Architecture Firm

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As my team and I consider new or improved ways of sharing knowledge to small firm entrepreneur architects throughout 2018, I produced this video for my YouTube channel. I will take you behind the scenes at my firm, Fivecat Studio, and share my workflow for the powerful communication app, Slack. Slack for Architects.

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An Introduction To Leadership

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The EntreArchitect community consists of small firms. Leadership may or may not be a focus of what a small firm has as a priority. I will put forward that leadership is more important to the success of a small firm than a large firm’s long-term success. Not every firm has to be Gensler.

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Putting First Things First for Balance & Prosperity

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In a recent conversation with a professional colleague who is a small firm practitioner (3 people total), he expressed his frustration with not being able to get to the ‘business of his business’. The ‘project’ is in its ‘beta’ testing stage at this time, in the anticipation of having it ready to ‘roll-out’ at the start of 2018.

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Leadership – What Is It?

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Gensler was already the largest firm in the US with five or so offices. From Gensler’s success as now the world’s largest architecture firm, Art’s leadership created the firm that is today. So, why is it important to small firms that the leader of the firm is exactly that? Augustine, Florida.

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Architecture Is Human: Part VI – Methods of Making

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The laptop suffices for many, but a bunch of humans can make more things better, so firms of humans result: These gatherings are organized somehow, usually by one or three who know more and some who know less, and are learning, by helping to make things. So communication within a firm is crucial.