Too many CRE professionals I know aren’t doing LinkedIn correctly. So I want to ask a question: What’s the purpose of LinkedIn? Is it: To stay in touch with past clients. To help future clients find you and determine if you are worth a call. To stay in touch with colleagues. To identify possible relationships…
Can we stop with the Millennials thing already?
“Get off my lawn.” That can sometimes be all people think about (on both sides) when they talk about Gen Y. Apparently before 10 years ago every 20 year old knew how to interview, there were no generational issues in the workforce, and (only recently) kids became selfish and self-centered. Under 30 somethings are “different”…
Do you really need that MBA?
An MBA is meant to demonstrate a mastery of certain business principles. Specifically that you are trained in the art of running some sort of operation – financials, HR, management, etc. When done right you graduate with your base degree, get a few years of work experience and then go back to get the MBA….
Thoughts on personal “flaws”
I get dinged by some colleagues for the fact that I don’t like definite statements that aren’t actually definite. For example: “There is no better computer than a Mac.” Sure, under a lot of circumstances that may be true but what if you are a heavy AutoCAD user? Maybe not then. What if you are…
300 posts meets 1 full year of blogging.
Today marks two milestones for me. This is my 300th post on BoxThoughts and it is also the 1 year anniversary of when I made the decision to write daily. Looking back I can’t believe that I’ve actually achieved that goal between work schedules, real life and a lack of noticeable readership growth or activity….
Talking to yourself to get to the best result.
I have a number of quotes taped to my monitor that I look at every day that I sit at my desk. But the biggest, most colorful one simply says: SLOW DOWN. I see it everyday and I still find it useful. When I get going on a sales call or project or just in…
How you can learn to distrust your gut and become metric minded.
Data. I love data. I’m not afraid to admit it. I’m comfortable in the midst of giant glowing, computer crashing Excel spreadsheets or SQL databases or large .csv files. Give it to me however you got it. (Although I’m still not sold on real-time data.) Big data? Let’s get to it! What I don’t enjoy…
Self-selecting groups may be throwing you off.
Causation vs. correlation is always a fun topic. (We all know that places with high crime rates tend to have more police and therefore police cause crime aka the Batman Paradox.) It’s interesting to see what kind of illogical and misguided decisions can be made without correctly understanding what is the cause and what is…
The power of perspective.
Have you ever wondered what a large lawn is? You will have one perspective when you live in an apartment and an entirely new one the first time you have to mow it. (Yes, new life lessons!) The same is true with how you use space. Drawings on a sheet of paper (no matter how…
When it’s time to take a vacation….
you’ll know it. That stress level jumps up, your ability to focus drops and your desire to be in the office fades. This is day two of mine and I’m already loving it. Be sure to take yours because vacations are great things. Help you relax, recharge and rebound from the stresses of the day-to-day….