I’ve been in a reflective mood recently as I continue trying to adjust to a new role. But within the reflective mood I constantly come back to the fact that CRE exists within the center of all things an organization does.
My favorite thing about CRE is that I need to understand everything about a business if I’m going to put together the right solutions.
I need to understand their financial motivations. I need to understand how their employees work. I need to understand their expected growth. I need to understand mergers and acquisitions. I need to understand how their business may change in the next 2 to 5 years. I need to understand the politics of how decisions are made.
This is a lot to take in for the work that I do. There is no way to take shortcuts. There is no way to give half solutions. Either would be immediately obvious within the context of any given solution.
CRE is a challenge which makes it fun. The best part of CRE is that I’m constantly under the pressure of really understanding the core of a business so that I don’t give an answer that is simply wrong.