{"id":20979,"date":"2019-05-08T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogfundacion.arquia.es\/2019\/05\/el-gestor-favorito-de-tu-gestor-favorito\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:14:14","slug":"your-favourite-managers-favourite-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogfundacion.arquia.es\/en\/2019\/05\/your-favourite-managers-favourite-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Favourite Manager\u2019s Favourite Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bringing Specialised Management Skills into Architecture Bureaus.<\/h2>\n
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<\/div> Frank Lloyd Wright counting up his working hours. Unauthenticated document.<\/p><\/div>\n

A few months ago, talking about our efforts to \u201cbe profitable\u201d, an acclaimed architect assured us that when a team has more than four people in it, another person is needed to coordinate all their activity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken us years to finally decide to employ someone whose job isn\u2019t to complete projects \u2013 to bill customers! -but to work full-time managing our business,<\/strong> as an extra employee. One reason for this was the economic and conceptual commitment involved in bringing in someone who would \u201cnever even touch Autocad\u201d. We\u2019re talking about taking on a new member of staff with full rights, dedicated exclusively to team management<\/strong>, to relieving us of tasks that up until now we\u2019ve done ourselves but for which we were never trained: a person whose creativity is engaged exclusively in ensuring the sustainability of the bureau<\/strong> as an economic undertaking (which, after all, it is).<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurial culture on the move.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It might be hard to believe that a team like ours, founded 18 years ago, has only been making project lists for four years, has only been using a paid online time management service for two years1<\/sup>, has only known its own number of annual working hours for a few months, and has now, for the first time, decided to create a work projection for the whole year<\/strong>: a document which will forecast how much we need to invoice to get a decent wage. But it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re convinced that our lack of entrepreneurial culture is endemic in our profession<\/strong>. At Zuloark, we\u2019ve learnt our trade as we go, by trial and error, and this has often led to the dragging out of critical situations. We\u2019ve come to the conclusion that the only way to continue our journey and stave off this centripetal precarity<\/strong> is by increasing our efficiency.<\/p>\n

At present there are 8.75 people in our team:<\/p>\n