You’ve finally come to the conclusion that something needs to change. The way you are managing your portfolio today cannot continue if you’re going to support the goals of the business 5 years from now. But you have a whole lot of locations and no idea where to start in developing a plan. Before you…
Patience
Our modern world is all about instant gratification, immediate turn arounds and prompt responses – even at midnight on a Saturday. To differentiate you have two options – respond faster than anyone else or show patience and timing. In reality, how many messages require a 5 minute responses? Think about how peaceful it is to…
Changing Demographics
What’s your plan for adapting your real estate portfolio to a shifting customer base and employee base? Is that firm you are using that has dots all over the map well equipped to help you develop your national real estate plan? Your international plan? Dots on the map are great if you know exactly where…
Devil’s Advocate
I regularly get accused of arguing for the sake of arguing. It’s true, I do enjoy a good heated discussion. Taking positions you wouldn’t normally adopt is the best way to keep you from falling into unconsidered positions. Changing your stance on an issue may be considered bad in politics, but in any other arena…
Timing really is everything
On a related note to yesterday’s post, don’t you love the feeling of being in the right place at the right time? Life’s little moments giving us random rewards. If you are always running and not staying somewhere more than 5 minutes are you ever around long enough to be surprised? Do you plan when…
Occupy your job
The Occupy Wall Street movement certainly catches the eye and the ear. People are obviously passionate about a variety of different things. They are channeling that passion into change. We can argue all we want about the effectiveness of the movement, but no one can argue with the passion. At work, are you keeping yourself…
Predictive Modeling Needs
The world is moving to prediction. Apple and their Siri application have made it front and center recently, but even over the past five years this is where the world has been moving. Whoever can predict their own future more accurately will have the highest degree of control over their own destiny. In our modern…
THE CLOUD
These days the news is all about the next big thing. It seems like everyone is yelling about the cloud (my ears seem to be ringing with their tune at least). Big Data is BIG! The CLOUD is BIGGER!! Everything we used to know will be gone!!! Calm down, smell the roses and remember that…
Make life easier
As real estate professionals, we exist as cost centers within the business organization. We support the business and help the profit making groups do their jobs better. So what have you done lately to make their jobs better?
Do you read?
I read a lot. Blogs, news sites, books (fiction and non-fiction), white papers, competitor advertisements, you name it and I probably read some. This ties into my personal belief that in this new information age the person who knows the most on a topic is no longer the best point of reference. There are two…