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24.01.2022 Coming soon to ArchiTel

19.01.2022 As an architect/designer, are you a problem-solver or solution-seeker? Your projects require you to create a balanced solution through aggregated value-adding decisions, to deliver your design vision within restrictive constraints. Managing your business requires the same approach but it doesn’t happen.... Here, problems are usually seen in isolation (with a lack of interest, scope and synergies), to which we believe we have (or are capable of getting to) the answer. This style of problem-solving just kicks the problems further down the road, where they morph into something bigger. Let me illustrate this point, cane toads were introduced into Australia from Hawaii in 1935 to solve the problem of native beetles damaging sugar cane crops. From the initial release of 102 toads there are more than 200,000,000 - decimating wild fauna and fatally toxic to anything that might prey on them. It didn’t solve the original problem but instead created multiple new problems as they spread. Seeking integrated solutions to the problems of managing your business requires being open to all possible ideas (where you may not have all the answers), then finding someone who can help you create your solutions. Are you a problem-solver of a solution-seeker for your business?

13.01.2022 What’s your grandest vision for your life? The life you don’t need to take a vacation from. Your architectural/design practice is a big part of that life and its vision for success should be an integral part of delivering your life vision.... You’re a leader of a small practice because you’re passionate about what you do. The business is an extension of you your values, your passion, your skills and knowledge. We all have our own version of that vision but we usually dismiss it because it’s too bold, too good, probably too hard to achieve and can’t be maintained. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change their world, are the ones who do it Steve Jobs. They get up every morning with the determination to do it. I’d be interested to know if you’ve defined and documented your vision, and if you have a plan to deliver it?

13.01.2022 Your small architectural, design or project-business is competing for your love and attention and it’s LOSING! It’s competing against your ‘project passion’, creative genius, and the highs and lows of the Project Roller-coaster. But when it loses - it handicaps your business (or even worse it fails), and that’s strangling your project opportunities and can be overwhelming - increasing your stress and reducing your prosperity.... In fact, most small project-businesses are underperforming not because of their project work (IN BUSINESS) but because they don’t invest the same rigour in managing their ON BUSINESS functions, and there are several reasons why they don’t. The objective is, not to spend more time, but to invest the right time in being more effective and efficient. Small improvements can make a big difference to your Tipping Point, that transform your business from Striving into Thriving. Let’s be clear growth, transformation, improvement, etc all involve change, which will require rigour, effort and time. You have to decide if what you’re doing is a passionate hobby or a sustainable business.

09.01.2022 A principle is an approach you stick with even if you know it might lead to a short-term outcome you don’t prefer. Especially then. It’s this gap between the short-term and the long-term that makes a principle valuable. If your guiding principle is to do whatever benefits you right now, you don’t have principles of much value. But it’s the valuable principles that pay off, because they enable forward motion, particularly when it feels like there are few alternatives. We embr...ace a culture based on principles because it’s that structure and momentum that enables connection and progress to happen in the first place. Seth Godin. For the architects and designers out there, do you feel that your principles and/or your values are placed under pressure by others in your projects? How do you voice your concerns and objections? #architecture #architect #australianarchitecture #design #interiordesign #projects #success #businesscoaching #smallbusiness #management #leadership