“So what?” might be my favorite professional question that other people find incredibly annoying. It also happens to be a question many real estate data and technology companies are hearing frequently from their customers. There seems to be a growing problem that comes from a world where much more occupancy data exists: companies are struggling…
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Your new collaborative workplace spaces are not doing what you hoped, are they?
For three years now, the two catchwords of Corporate Real Estate have been hybrid and collaboration. Hybrid captured the idea that employees would work from home (much) more often. Collaboration captured the idea that employees would be together, talking, brainstorming, innovating, and not doing heads-down activities in the office. Neither worked out quite how many…
When you stop worrying about the small things, they have a way of becoming unexpected large concerns.
Over time, it is easy to become comfortable with what came before. We naturally want to move on to bigger and better things. If we dealt with million-dollar worries last year, we want to have ten-million-dollar worries this year. Moving up to bigger problems is a clear way of showing we are progressing. The problem…
The massive changes to CRE over the past and coming years mean stress and burnout to individuals.
I enjoy looking at the incredibly uncertain landscape that is Corporate and Commercial Real Estate. For me, it is a wide-open opportunity to figure out new solutions and implement them. I get excited by change because it presents a challenge I have not yet faced. It is a chance to prove myself against the world….
Maybe is a more powerful word than either Yes or No.
If you want a team to spend an inordinate amount of time on something, tell them Maybe to a suggestion. Maybe is the most dangerous word in any language. It carries with it the implication of “Yes, this is almost close enough to move forward” but also “There are things you need to fix but…
The smartest person in the room is rarely the one that gets the job completed.
Let us start by saying I have a healthy ego. It has taken me years to reconcile the fact that being right about a question, subject, or topic does not equate to being effective. Interestingly, it is the smartest people in the room that are most likely to derail an otherwise effective meeting or project…