In my current role, I get a lot of cold contacts from various salespeople. Their styles vary from company to company and person to person. There is no one way to do it. Some ask me to look at their public calendar and book time myself. Some are politely asking if I have 15 minutes…
Are you beholden to an out-dated view of your world?
This post started as a draft from December before COVID-19 became something impacting the world. I recently went back through old drafts seeing where my mind had been and this one jumped out as being even more important now than it was at the time. Every now and then, the world changes. Sometimes the world…
There’s a lot going on these days for everyone.
There’s a lot going on these days for everyone. Even when the days are not technically as busy as they used to be, that doesn’t mean that things are easier. Difficulty is a combination of more than just time worked. But then, I don’t think I’m saying anything that the world of amateur writers aren’t…
Now is not the time to be talking about WHERE to work; now is the time to be talking about HOW to work.
I kind of get what’s going on. We are part of the corporate real estate world and workplace is a thing that we can control. Therefore, we all end up talking about what’s going to happen to the workplace of the future. We sit around in our virtual groups and discuss the spike in home…
How to plan when you cannot see a time horizon
“Real Estate in the Age of Social Distancing” will be a book title before the year is out. It almost seems to write itself. Real Estate is a hot topic – particularly workplace. Social Distancing is the new rage (not necessarily for good reasons of course). Throw the word “Age” in to get some buzzword…
The slow trudge of uncertainty and discomfort follows a slow and muddy path
It was just a few months ago that I wrote that one day tomorrow would be better than today and on and on. When I put that post out into the world, I hoped that by now the worst would be behind us, yet we still seem to be in the same slog as then….
Corporate Real Estate (CRE) is at a crossroads and Commercial Real Estate (the other CRE) is struggling to figure out what comes next
It’s a bit cliched to say “there is no better time than now” to do a thing. But right now, in July of 2020, this statement for Corporate Real Estate teams has never been more true. Covid-19 has provided a global reset for every company around the world, in every industry, with every workplace model…
Uncertainty: the real new normal
Articles everywhere talk about new normal or next normal or future normal or pick a buzzword. They try to stake out a position for what the near to mid-term future holds. The one thing they have in common is that they all paint a unique picture with no overlapping theories. There is no consistency between…
As a landslide pours down a mountain, it looks huge; never forget that it started with a single rock.
All morning I’ve had landslides on my mind. Big things are happening all around us that feel like they’ve spontaneously sprang up from nowhere. But everything starts somewhere. No movement ever sprang to life fully formed. It’s hard to find the right words for everything happening in America right now. There are big problems we…
What changes when “the workplace of the future” really means “the workplace of one year from now”?
The workplace of the future has always felt like a concept five years or more down the road. Corporate and Commercial real estate specialists would gather and look out at what trends were shaping productivity, usually with a heavy focus on technology. This has led us down the road of WeWork and flexible, agile working…