Are you putting your ideas out there only for paying clients to see and hear? Or are you putting your ideas out there for everyone? If you aren’t putting your thoughts out into the public domain for external consumption and evaluation how do you know your ideas are superior? A critical part of the idea…
#Relationships are the lifeblood of #CRE. They can make you and break you.
Who you are matters. Are you a person of integrity? Do you do what you say you will? Always tell the hard truth? This is the foundation of solid relationships. CRE, more than most industries, is built on relationships. You can’t build that relationship over a single lunch or round of golf, but you can…
What do you see that no one else does? That’s your #value.
Duke Long had a great post yesterday that I’d like to take a bit further. He mentioned all the things he sees in real estate that a lot of others wouldn’t notice. I’d like to go so far as to say, if you don’t have a list like this you probably aren’t top of your…
Let’s play “Count the #121212 Posts”!
It may not be the end of the world, but humans are suckers for odometer effects. Whenever the clock or the calendar hits some round or repeating number we all love it (obviously myself included!). But as a behavioral mechanism it has positive side effects. Just like New Years causes everyone to think about what…
What’s the continuing value of #LEED ?
LEED by the USGBC has been an incredibly successful program. In fact, I would argue that the program’s success will be precisely what brings about it’s obsolescence. From the outside looking in, one of the goals that I saw for LEED was to change the way that businesses, developers, architects and communities thought about buildings…
When timeline dictates #strategy you can still win
You don’t always get to make decisions on the timeframe that you would prefer. Sometimes circumstances dictate what you are able to do. Often, this is considered a bad thing but it doesn’t have to be. Constricted timelines force you to think outside the box and take risks that you normally wouldn’t. Often they will…
Long week, few posts, off we go
Sorry for the slow week. It’s been that weird and perfect storm of personal and professional lives meeting in a giant storm called 30 hours a day 8 days a week. Let’s just say it’s been crazy. Hopefully back to normal here soon.
Culture and the Art of the 24 hour day.
Sometimes you get exposed to a new culture on your terms. Sometimes you get exposed to it on their terms. And then sometimes you get exposed to it for a week straight of non-stop activity in which you don’t get away from it. Certainly a great way to learn quickly. Too often when we think…
A solution in search of a problem…or the reply-all button
Slashdot carries the news out of Nielsen that they are disabling the Reply-All button. Specifically with the goal of “eliminating ‘bureaucracy and inefficiency.’” This strikes me as the classic case of a solution in search of a problem. Or maybe a technology lead in search of some way to seem effective. The Reply-All has been…
SPAM in the age of technological innovation
We often think of SPAM as being an email phenomenon (or a food if you go that way). But it’s not. SPAM is anything which interrupts our lives with no value add. Many new technology innovations are focused on making communications easier or packaging them differently. Watch out. It’s a trap! Once you are labeled…