Employees do the work they are given to keep the company moving forward. Owners take responsibility for creating something new and pushing the company forward without being managed into it. Employees look forward to vacations and forgetting about the projects they are working on. Owners look forward to getting back to the office to work…
Technology always has side effects that you don’t predict.
Every new tool comes with side effects (some good, some bad). The invention of the hammer also required the invention of the hammer claw for removing nails. The invention of the smart phone ironically killed off actual phone calls. The invention of Facebook meant that we’d not turn over old friends as quickly as we…
What the Sony hack should teach you about your #CRE projects.
If the only lesson you take away from the Sony hack situation is “be careful what you put in writing” then you are missing several major lessons. That’s a lesson all of us should have learned many times over before this point. The bigger lessons are these: Strategy can’t be put together entirely offline. Your…
The top BoxThoughts posts of 2014. I enjoyed re-reading them at least.
It was a good year here at BoxThoughts. We almost doubled our audience while maintaining a steady flow of material. I’m not going to do a top 10 or 20 or whatever because you can each find your own favorites (if you care to at all). But these are the four most read and also…
Apps that I can’t live without – 2014.
Here’s the list of apps I use daily and how/why. Maybe you’ll find a couple useful. Note that all of these are the Android version as I have not recently used iOS versions of any of them. Google Now. The single greatest application for anyone invested in the Google environment. This app/service is amazing for…
A key for #CRE project success. Don’t involve yourself in the client’s decisions.
That title is probably going to rub a few people wrong. “Why shouldn’t we help the client get to the right decision?” And as with anything in life, there’s some nuance to the issue. Let’s start at the top though, our job is to help a client make the right real estate decisions. Hard stop….
Steve Jobs is still the man. We can all still go to school on his lessons.
I was reading through some articles the other day when one on the best Steve Jobs emails came up. The man had what ever “it” is. Whether you learn from his success or his failures, you can’t help but learn from the man. His was a unique path.
Amazon’s downtown campus as employee benefit. #CRE
Great article last week over at Quartz about Jeff Bezo’s thoughts on the Amazon corporate campus. The key takeaway for me is the idea in this thought: Bezos said the urban campus is a “spectacular benefit” to Amazon’s employees at its headquarters, allowing 15% of them to live in the same zip code as their office,…
Pareto Principle and Blogging.
80% of what you (I) write is filler. 20% of what you (I) write is good. 5% of what you (I) write is really good. 1% of what you (I) write is actually worth something. If you (I) post 200 times a year that means 160 posts are just “eh” to 10 that are really eye…
Redesign often. Why changing your website look can be a good thing.
One of the sites I read regularly online is Medium. It’s a great mix of news, opinion, science and other stories that are longer or shorter form. An interesting thing happens regularly with the site though – it is constantly changing its homepage for browsing articles. It’s fascinating how the site has evolved from being…