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5 Principles of Servant Leadership for Small Firm Architects

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Earlier that day, our hosts at the 1992 American Institute of Architecture Students Grassroots conference gave each student leader a copy of the inspirational paperback following a motivational speech about leadership. Take time to be a mentor for your team. Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Greg Epperson.

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Gene Kohn Changed My Life, and Indirectly Impacted an Entire Generation of Architects

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In 1992 Gene Kohn, Chairman and Founder of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) spoke at my architecture school. I was a 22-year-old architecture student and a born entrepreneur. Below is the talk Gene presented at the EntreArchitect Business Summit for our community of small firm architects.

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Back to School: Marketing for Architects

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This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “Back to School”, so I am encouraging my fellow small firm architects to go back to school themselves and learn what they need to know to find the work they want and live a life they’ll love. As small firm architects, how do we get noticed by those prospects? Back to School.

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5 Principles of Servant Leadership

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Earlier that day, our hosts at the 1992 American Institute of Architecture Students Grassroots conference gave each student leader a copy of the inspirational paperback following a motivational speech about leadership. Take time to be a mentor for your team. Read more about Servant Leadership here and here.

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Top 10 Entrepreneur Architect Blog Articles of 2013

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Today I’m in Chicago at AIAS Forum 2013 celebrating the new year with a thousand architecture students from every corner of North America. My session is titled, 12 Steps to Business Success in Architecture. Here’s to a remarkable 2014.

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Be Better

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I had many interesting conversations with architecture students while I was in Chicago. Others wanted to know about how to start their own firms. My answer to those students, as well as to anyone else concerned with this very volatile issue? Architecture is a business. Some were concerned about finding a job.

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5 Steps to Unleash the Significant Power of Sleep

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Recently things are changing for architecture students in the United States. Though, today, many schools do not enforce these rules, the AIAS and current generations of architecture students are taking on the responsibility to educate their peers and are advocating against the unhealthy and unsafe practice of the legendary all-nighter.