A successful design practice requires principals and staff who are creative, technically proficient, and financially savvy. Designing Profits focuses on the last component--the one that is so elusive for many architects, engineers, and construction professionals--the business aspects of practice.

Not an ordinary book on practice issues or finance, Designing Profits explains the application of design thinking to guide wise business decisions. It is indeed possible to be as creative in establishing and operating a practice as in designing and constructing a...