I was away for the past week for some much needed R&R. A thought occurred to me while sitting in the sand listening to my eclectic playlist of the moment – what I needed for recharging my batteries now versus how I recharged them in the past is completely different. This may sound intuitive but…
Headed out to a week of vacation so you won’t see anything here for a week.
Headed out to a week of vacation so you won’t see anything here for a week. I don’t feel bad about it at all. My batteries need the recharge, my mind needs to jump some gears. I’ve been on a pretty good run around here recently (if I do say so myself) and I plan…
Off Topic: Completed reread of Wheel of Time. 9 month recap.
Today’s post is completely off topic for what I normally post but it’s something that is important to me and I feel a need to throw out some thoughts on it. If you are looking for any tie back to what I normally do, go ahead and jump now – no one will be offended….
How do you drive change in entrenched institutions?
If there’s one thing all of us in the CRE world deal with it is operations that don’t want to change. They don’t want to move to the new site, they don’t want to give up their offices, they don’t want a new color on the wall. Pushing for change is a core part to…
Numbers are not truth. Statistics are not certainties. The devil lives in the details.
It’s been a long few days of national tragedies. I’ve had to block more than a few people on social media because I can’t put up with the people politicizing these events and trying to make them fit their ideological messaging. This is a time for reflection and rationally moving forward, this isn’t a time for…
When you don’t know where to start with solving a problem, start with restating what you are trying to do.
One of the core issues I commonly run into is difficulty in identifying the root causes of a particular issue. It is really easy to get caught up in the day-to-day functions and miss sight of what is really going on behind the scenes with the business. Trying to fix a problem that we face…
What is important to me – thinking through change.
I enjoy a challenge because it means I’m being pushed. A challenge is a good way to find yourself growing as a person, often in ways you never expected. In my case the challenges have pushed me to think about how I deal with colleagues day-in, day-out. In interactions with people I’ve historically wanted to…
Five types of people you need to build your #CRE dream team.
In any business you need to match the people you hire to the skills that you need. Every business venture is slightly different and the real estate world is often more different than just about any other in corporate America. With that in mind here are the roles you need if you are going to…
Creating standardized processes in the middle of organizational chaos is self-defeating.
It’s fascinating to watch people try to create a calm spot in the middle of an ocean during a hurricane. They are standing there with their hat flying away, hair blowing around, wind drowning out their voice, boat tossing around – while trying to direct people that the solution to fixing the situation is to always…
My thoughts on the Brexit and its impact on CRE.
One of the questions I’ve received a lot recently is “what does the Brexit mean to companies with real estate in the UK?” The question often comes from a sense of urgency to figure out if a change of direction is needed. Will the Brexit cause companies to change their plans for locating in the…