Sustainability means different things to different people. Some think about just utility usage. Others immediately think carbon footprint. And still others focus on reducing waste in their actions. The most important part is having a plan. Because it doesn’t always mean LEED buildings and carbon offsets (in fact, true sustainability rarely means either of those…
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Your Junior person may be better than that guy with 25 years.
Oh the Gen Y stereotypes. Every now and then they come back out. But lately there has been a refreshing realization to many of them…..not everyone fits stereotypes! Yes, yes- everyone thinks they understand this fact but in reality all of us use stereotypes in situations where we have limited experiences. When your interactions have…
Doers do, but leaders must still understand.
Real Estate involves a lot of specializations. Location , retail , healthcare, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, tax, incentives, architects, designers, strategists, etc. Lots of people. That’s a lot of disciplines that need to be understood if you are leading a complex project involving multiple disciplines. And you can either lead them all yourself or you…
Asking for permission instead of just getting it done will likely cause it to not be done at all.
(One of) the problem with asking permission is that the person you are asking may not care about the issue at all. For all they care, no change is the best solution because it makes their life easier with no appreciable gain. When the person you are seeking permission from has no stake they will…
Real Estate requires a true sense of urgency.
The world of real estate changes by the day. Leases commence, leases expire, buildings are built, workers are hired, businesses close or move. Every action causes a real estate reaction. Suddenly available space may be snapped up quickly or it could sit vacant on the market for 3 years. The decisions of businesses are fickle…
A story is only as good as it’s meaning…which is determined later.
Life is about stories. We tell them during the quiet times to fill up the silence. We tell them when we are marketing our services to explain how we operate. But the thing about stories based on real life is that they don’t develop meaning until after the fact. It’s only through hindsight that we…
Amazing Real Estate Infographics – interactive
If you are into real estate, you’ll dig these two web maps. Just click into the and you won’t be disappointed. Trust me. Brooklyn NY – building dates. Netherlands – building dates (just go looking for the blue pockets to see new growth). Both really show the evolution of a geography. Found through Infosthetics.
A thought on building technology for specific use cases.
Technology is hard. Technology is cultural. Technology in any given industry is not for everyone. Just because you had success before doesn’t mean that the way you did things before will work again. Often times people forget about the cultural aspect of software. To build a successful system you must understand the mindset of…
Spreading ideas through “influencers”
I received a call yesterday from a gentleman with a company that doesn’t sell or market anything but wanted to give me complementary access to a whitepaper because I’m an “influencer” in my organization. When I received it, it was nothing more than a tracking link to an article on their website. Needless to say…
Shaking off the rust yields all kinds of new ideas
I may have mentioned that I’ve been immersed in a single project over the last many months. Only recently have I gotten out and back into other things like sales. And specifically, exactly the kind of sales engagement I was working on a year ago. But somehow this time it was different. I saw everything…