Seth Godin put up a thought-provoking post on Saturday titled On paying for software. This is another in a string of industry thinkers looking at the Microsoft acquisition of Github and trying to understand the potential impact. It’s a good moment to reflect on what software (and free) means to various industries. Seth makes the…
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Time is not your friend – except when it is.
All of us operate under the same macro constraint – limited time. Our time in a role, job, company, and (ultimately) life is limited. We get promoted, we aren’t as sharp, we move on, things change. Time is a vicious master. We have a limited amount that we each have to figure out how to…
Ability to make good decisions is the single biggest predictor of long-term success.
I don’t have any scientific studies to back up this opinion but I’m going to stand by it anyway: An ability to make good decisions is the single biggest predictor of long-term success. There are two operative words in that prediction: 1) good and 2) decisions. Both of these seem like relatively straightforward words with…
Flexible is very different from controllable #WorkplaceWednesday
One of the biggest movements in real estate right now is the rise of agile or flexible workplaces. Introducing increasing levels of flexibility into the workplace is directly tied to reduced space requirements and (ideally) increased productivity. The productivity piece is almost impossible to prove or disprove. But the reduced space is a very easy…
Own your world and deliver more than expected.
There are two tricks to amazing delivery: Own your piece of the world. If something lands in it, take the lead and ensure things get done. Don’t just do the minimum, do what is necessary for a good to great result. If you are going to do a job, do that job well. When someone…
6 top posts from the year so far – catching up on some history.
I like to think that I don’t write here for anyone more than myself. But it’s nice to think that there may be people out there just finding me for the first time. And for those lurking around, you may have missed these as well. Over the past 12 months, these are my most read…
An effective CRE strategy includes location, workforce, workplace, technology, culture, and (above all else) patience
It’s easy for those in the industry to fall into over-simplifying what corporate (or commercial) real estate is. This world we have chosen is extremely broad. It covers every industry that exists or used to exist. It covers retail, office, warehouse, and manufacturing. It covers big enterprise and mom and pop businesses. The business world…
I got nothing….
Over the past two weeks, I’ve struggled to come up with something worth writing about. It’s not traditional writer’s block as there were plenty of things I could write about. More, it’s the fact that everything that I wanted to write about was too close to home. I’ve been getting into a new role again….
4 supporting metrics of Corporate Real Estate
So my post earlier this week on the 3 core metrics of corporate real estate seemed to strike a chord. I got more hits from that than any normal post. Maybe it’s because it had a number in the headline? Maybe it’s because it’s superbly written? Not sure which but I’ll run with it anyway….
The 3 core metrics of corporate real estate.
There are three classic metrics used to evaluate the “efficiency” of a corporate real estate portfolio: Occupancy Ratio: Square feet per person: the amount of space in the portfolio divided by the total number of employees and contractors. In a traditional one person to one seat workplace, this will always be higher than the Density Ratio…