There’s a lot of “stats” being thrown around about the newly work from home. As someone who has worked from home full-time for awhile, I can’t help but laugh as they reflect the typical change curve of someone beginning the work from home process. Yet the “stats” are presented as if they are an accurate…
4 Workplace myths that we believed to be true until Covid-19 proved them wrong
Workplaces are front and center during this Covid-19 situation. It’s a strange situation for those of us who live Corporate Real Estate. We’ve always known how much rides on what we do, but now, everyone else is seeing it as important as well. There are a lot of armchair experts rising up who are developing…
Never be afraid of throwing away work that no longer fits the situation
One of the weird things about this on-going Covid-19 pandemic is that the world seems to change every 2 to 3 days. Things you start working on Monday are no longer valid by Friday because the audience they are for has moved on to some other concern. Presentations from the week before no longer apply…
Now might be the worst time in the history of #CRE to be a futurist. 4 tipping points that will set the direction of real estate for the next 3 years.
I’ve always laughed at conferences about people who try to predict what the future will look like in 10 years within a given industry. They look to past trends and events as inspiration for what path the future may take. They use this extrapolation to come up with ideas that paint a grand vision of…
Covid-19 has set the change curve in motion globally as never before as individuals, teams, companies, and governments struggle to look forward
The Change Curve is a popular concept right now as everyone around the world finds both their work and personal lives changed and we collectively try to deal with the unknowns of Covid-19. For those that prefer a quick overview, the change curve (or five stages of grief) are: Denial Anger Depression Bargaining Acceptance In…
When should you use raw data versus cleansed data?
Yep, another Covid-19 post here. It’s a situation that keeps on giving new examples that can be applied to how we do things once we start to return to some sort of normal. Countries and companies are now beginning to look at returning some businesses to work. They are using the data to guide their…
Predictions about the future in the middle of a crisis are usually worthless
The middle of a crisis is the worst time to begin thinking about what might happen in the future. A crisis implies short term emotion and challenge which clouds judgment. It is extremely easy to take that emotion and challenge and extrapolate it into the future to believe it will make a massive impact on…
Dials and light switches are very different, yet people often treat them the same #community
California Governor, Gavin Newsom, recently outlined what it will look like when the state begins to reopen. In his comments, he used a great analogy: “There is no light switch here, it’s more like a dimmer,” Newsom said. “I know you want the timeline, but we can’t get ahead of ourselves and dream of regretting….
Just because data is bad doesn’t mean it is useless.
Last week, I wrote an entire post on how Covid-19 was a great case study in the risks of bad data. It never really sat great with me after I had it in the can. The message was correct but it wasn’t right. The gist of it was that the data that is being thrown…
One day soon in this crisis the phrase “tomorrow will be worse than today” will be wrong. Then it will be wrong again. Then for a week…
It can feel like “tomorrow will be worse than today” will be true forever. But that can’t be the case. Crises have a natural lifespan to them. Our job is to do what we can to make the lifespan of this Covid-19 crisis as short as possible through social distancing, obsessive hand washing, and caring…