Seasonality is the fact that our demand, revenues, profits, or business requirements do not follow a set line – they tend to ebb and flow over the course of the year. Retail businesses obviously do most of their revenue during the holiday period starting with Black Friday. Real estate businesses make most of their money…
How to live the technology lifestyle.
Technology is all around us. Smart phones, watches and homes. Fashion adopts technology trends (both the good and bad). Technology adopts fashion trends (geek chic anyone?). But at the end of it all you still need to decide what devices you want to own for yourself. (Or maybe you are trying to figure out the…
How the Holidays teach us why Alternative #Workplace can work for anyone.
Starting during the week of Thanksgiving and continuing until just past New Year’s Day, take a look around the office you work in. How many people are there in the workstations, offices and the Executive areas? How many of them are truly on vacation versus simply working from home? The floor walk this time of…
Thankfulness to all those who helped me get here.
Most of the time around this time of year I focus on the things that I am thankful for today and right now. For whatever the reason this year I’ve been looking back a lot more. I’ve been very lucky and blessed along my path for those that have helped me get where I am…
Two ways of thinking about high volume, low margin customers.
I love reading about the broadband industry these days. Articles about how Comcast and Time Warner Cable are pushing for home broadband caps just tickle me to death. This gets me to thinking about how you treat your highest volume but lowest margin customers (because that’s what high data users are to Comcast, et al)….
There is no age limit on ability to innovate.
Innovation is not a sport, it’s a set of habits and processes. It’s something that we cause ourselves to do. Harvard Business Review is right on a lot of things but they miss on this article titled “Are Most CEOs Too Old to Innovate?”. They miss badly. The crux of the argument is that most…
Culture in your team and organization really matter. We each can do our part.
As part of a distributed workforce that travels heavily for client work, it’s hard for the team I’m part of to develop daily chemistry. Over time we’ve all come together and get along well together. New colleagues are integrated fairly well as we try to make efforts to travel to meet, visit, chat and learn…
What a travelling Out of Office message says in the professional service industries (which includes CRE).
Out of Office messages allow us to communicate with people when we are going to be out of communication for a time. Personally I hate them and try not to use them at all but still end up throwing one up about once a year. An Out of Office message is basically a pass the…
7 Lessons I’ve learned from blogging daily (or at least trying to)…
Clearing the head daily of that one thought that’s been rattling around is highly therapeutic. It’s rare that I get hung up on ideas any more that I don’t have time to focus on. Throwing them out to the world and revisiting them occasionally keeps me involved with them without distracting me. Writing during the…
The idea of service value has been on my mind a lot recently.
Value. It is what we all preach to our clients. Choose us because we offer the most value. Give us the partnership because we bring the most value to the table. Use our tools because they save you time and give you added value. We live in a value based world. But this value thing…