These days the news is all about the next big thing. It seems like everyone is yelling about the cloud (my ears seem to be ringing with their tune at least). Big Data is BIG! The CLOUD is BIGGER!! Everything we used to know will be gone!!! Calm down, smell the roses and remember that…
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Make life easier
As real estate professionals, we exist as cost centers within the business organization. We support the business and help the profit making groups do their jobs better. So what have you done lately to make their jobs better?
Do you read?
I read a lot. Blogs, news sites, books (fiction and non-fiction), white papers, competitor advertisements, you name it and I probably read some. This ties into my personal belief that in this new information age the person who knows the most on a topic is no longer the best point of reference. There are two…
Steve Jobs’ Management Legacy
Let me start by saying that Steve Jobs is one of a kind. There is a reason that no other CEO successfully runs their business the way that Steve ran Apple. It’s a generally unsustainable model. For it to work the CEO must know more about what the engineers and designers are doing than they…
Apple’s HQ Reinvention
I’ve been meaning to post on this for awhile but if you haven’t seen it yet, Apple’s new headquarters concept is a thing of beauty. Not every company (no other company?) can do something like this, but it will definitely force a few companies to rethink what a headquarters should be in the future. In…
My Favorite Metric
I’m an industrial engineer (as I may have mentioned a few times). My favorite concept from the Georgia Tech program was knapsack problems. Given a limited amount of space (like a building) how do you best fill it for maximum value. The simplest solution to most Knapsack problems is called the Greedy Algorithm. For each…
What is Service?
One of the fun things about writing a blog is that you begin to receive PR firm emails asking you to talk to this expert or that specialist. I started by sending them all to junk but overtime began to see them as a valuable source for understanding what the hot topics are. Monday I…
Social Media in Real Estate
Social Media is still the king of the internet. Real estate hasn’t figured out how to take advantage yet. Social Media is all about the free sharing of information for mutual gain. Said another way: you freely and voluntarily share your information for others to read so that they can gain some value. The sharing…
The Customer Profitability Conundrum
Customers are the lifeblood of your business. Without them you would have no revenue, no business case, nothing. Unfortunately they are also probably the most difficult part of your company to handle. Which customers do you keep, which do you turn away? Can you afford to grow quickly or is a slower method preferred? What…
Steve Jobs
I’m from Gen Y. I love technology, how things will be done in the future and interface design. I’ve never owned an iPhone but love iTunes and my classic iPod. No one has ever accused me of being an Apple fanboy. Steve Jobs was the greatest leader, innovator and individual of my generation. Thursday morning…