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What Good Architects Do

Architects aren’t paid enough because 1: they don’t make enough money

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There is a common misconception amongst non-architect that architects are extremely well paid professionals, but this isn’t the case. In November 2007 the Office of National Statistics published a snapshot of UK Salaries which showed Architects (then earning on average just £38,559 Gross a year) were 30th in the list, behind amongst others, Fire, Ambulance, [...]

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Poll Results: ‘Architect’

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Last week I asked the Question,
“When I say the word Architect, what comes to mind?”
and posted the question here on the blog, on linkedin and via my twitter account to as many people as possible, asking them to post up their responses via the seedkeywords website. All 166 results can be viewed in public [...]

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Stop Pretending You’re Everyone

AllMarketersAreLiars by Seth Godin

I’m not particularly keen on ‘Social Media Geeks’. A bit like I’m not particularly keen on ‘Architecture Geeks’. You know, the type of people who talk only to their friends and people in their own sphere, and who can’t stop spouting incomprehensible twaddle in language only their converts can understand.
However, things can get interesting [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 3: Things to start doing

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by Richard Derwent Cooke
This is the third blog in this series, and hopefully you now have the core idea that being proactive is the key to success in these recessionary times. Last time we considered things that you needed to stop doing and now I’d like to consider those things that you need to [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 2: Things to stop doing

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By Richard Derwent Cooke
Once you have accepted that you are best able to succeed in the recession by taking charge, a key question to ask is “What am I doing that no longer serves me?”
Things like:-

What activities are wasting my time? Remember the 80:20 rule

Which customers are taking a disproportionate amount of time [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 1: Change how you see things

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by Richard Derwent Cooke
The world is in global economic melt down .. right? And yet I am sure there are many people and businesses that are doing very well in today’s marketplace. Of course there are practical difficulties with getting credit (if you need it) or perhaps with clients who lack liquidity. [...]

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It Really Is about Money Stupid

“A third of architectural practices made so little profit in the boom times that they could go bust with the onslaught of the credit crunch, an RIBA survey has revealed.

This year’s RIBA Business Benchmarking Survey, released to BD this week, shows that just 67% of firms met the industry safe standard of profits equalling 15% [...]

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What is your Get Out Of Bed Rate?

Running a business is a matter of ins and outs.
‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god [...]

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What good architects do: Strategy

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Picture two animals: a fox and a hedgehog. Which are you?

An ancient Greek parable distinguishes between foxes, which know many small things, and hedgehogs, which know one big thing. All good-to-great leaders, it turns out, are hedgehogs. They know how to simplify a complex world into a single, organizing idea—the kind of basic principle that [...]

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A Store full of Repentance and No Customers

Sky Masterson: “You are stuck with a store full of repentance and no customers. Without sinners to repent, repentance doesn’t exist. So you’re stuck with a store full of nothing. Do I give you a fair rundown?”
Captain Sarah Brown: “I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had a rundown.”
Guys ‘n’ Dolls
Two hot topics in the architectural press [...]

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