I’m going to take some time this week to talk about engineers in real estate. A topic near and dear to my heart. My focus is going to be around how we can improve and do better. Because let’s be honest, engineers can have a bit of an ego that needs to be worked around…
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Differentiate!
Over time every business, product or service becomes a commodity. As people realize there is a market for it and competition increases there is a drive to standardize and begin competing on price and process. Sometimes it happens slowly and others times it’s pretty quick. To be successful you can’t compete the way everyone else…
Fantasy Economics
Hello, my name is David and I love Fantasy Baseball. I’m in a keeper league where I have a custom built application to help me understand which players should excel next year and which are the hidden gems. I am constantly looking for new ways to stay ahead of my competitors (and I even won…
Real Estate Analysis
You’ve finally come to the conclusion that something needs to change. The way you are managing your portfolio today cannot continue if you’re going to support the goals of the business 5 years from now. But you have a whole lot of locations and no idea where to start in developing a plan. Before you…
Patience
Our modern world is all about instant gratification, immediate turn arounds and prompt responses – even at midnight on a Saturday. To differentiate you have two options – respond faster than anyone else or show patience and timing. In reality, how many messages require a 5 minute responses? Think about how peaceful it is to…
Changing Demographics
What’s your plan for adapting your real estate portfolio to a shifting customer base and employee base? Is that firm you are using that has dots all over the map well equipped to help you develop your national real estate plan? Your international plan? Dots on the map are great if you know exactly where…
Devil’s Advocate
I regularly get accused of arguing for the sake of arguing. It’s true, I do enjoy a good heated discussion. Taking positions you wouldn’t normally adopt is the best way to keep you from falling into unconsidered positions. Changing your stance on an issue may be considered bad in politics, but in any other arena…
Timing really is everything
On a related note to yesterday’s post, don’t you love the feeling of being in the right place at the right time? Life’s little moments giving us random rewards. If you are always running and not staying somewhere more than 5 minutes are you ever around long enough to be surprised? Do you plan when…
Occupy your job
The Occupy Wall Street movement certainly catches the eye and the ear. People are obviously passionate about a variety of different things. They are channeling that passion into change. We can argue all we want about the effectiveness of the movement, but no one can argue with the passion. At work, are you keeping yourself…
Predictive Modeling Needs
The world is moving to prediction. Apple and their Siri application have made it front and center recently, but even over the past five years this is where the world has been moving. Whoever can predict their own future more accurately will have the highest degree of control over their own destiny. In our modern…