100-Hour Weeks, Succession at 41, and a KPI That Changed Everything An Article By: Kevin Crawford Hi – I’m Kevin Crawford (42) Introduced to life in an architecture practice at 14 years of age 20+ Years Managing our own family practice Created a Succession Plan through a Transition to Employee Ownership at 41 Founded ‘Designing Success – A Partner for Practices’ Co-Founded ‘The Architectural Survey Company’ Co-Founded ‘Pilotis Practice & Project Management App’ Key to success – Being Relatable rather than Impressive Introduction to Architecture at 14 My first experience of how an Architecture Practice was run was when I started to shadow my dad in his practice at 14 years of age – and now looking back I could see even then that my Dad worked long hard hours to try to make the business work, initially trying to be everyone before deciding to focus on running the business and employing a team of people in different roles – it should have been an easy lesson for me but I soon found myself doing exactly the same! Relatable I went onto run the business firstly alongside my Dad and then on my own over a 20 year period and … Continue reading From Firefighting To Freedom In Practice