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Say it quickly.
You know those 60 minute meetings on your calendar that only have about 15 minutes of useful content…why aren’t you holding people accountable for wastefulness of time? Why do some people feel the...
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If you’re in the industry, pass on your knowledge. Don’t lock it up.
There are a couple of types of managers (yes, I’m jumping STRAIGHT to stereotypes in this one). Those that want to be better than the people who work for them and those that want their people to be...
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Culture and how sometimes people just don’t fit.
I answered a LinkedIn question the other day on the topic of what’s more important: that they have knowledge or talent. The answer to this drives to the heart of your group’s culture. Some groups are...
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Just Deliver
Two words. Just deliver. If you can’t do that then get out of the way because you’re going to slow the rest of us back. And when it’s time for us to deliver we aren’t going to slow down for you....
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When you get beat-up a lot it’s hard to keep delivering.
There’s a school of thinking out there that it is important to fail. I can’t agree more. Mistakes are more memorable than successes and often have more complete lessons to learn. But sometimes...
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Real Estate is a reflection of your #culture
Big money these days are spent by organizations trying to change their culture. Experts are brought in to advise on everything from hiring strategies to the way executives should address employees....
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Teaching the old dog new tricks….how’s that working for you? #frustration
When you try to train a 10 year old dog new ways of doing the things it’s done all its life it’s a difficult process with a high failure rate. A few times here and there they participate and do what...
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Culture and the Art of the 24 hour day.
Sometimes you get exposed to a new culture on your terms. Sometimes you get exposed to it on their terms. And then sometimes you get exposed to it for a week straight of non-stop activity in which...
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#CRE and the #Yahoo situation – it’s about culture!
I am finding the Yahoo having no work from home employees discussion curious – and likely just a media creation. To ask a question: which is more productive: Working in an office with others of my...
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What is Leadership?
I’d like to throw out a new concept for phenomena that happen in shared settings. Things like leadership and culture are closer to emotions than to definable traits. You know a leader when you...
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Understanding the culture is different from being part of it.
The anthropologist that studies the culture is not part of it. They are forced to be separate. The scientist cannot be part of the experiment for it to be valid. The same is true for people at a...
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Avoid becoming a real estate Gatekeeper
Gatekeepers pop up in many an industry and institution. They can serve valuable roles when done right (such as when the cost of anyone throwing out bad ideas is low) but they can also serve as...
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Don’t fall into the trap of using your potential client’s culture instead of...
As service providers, it can be tempted to make a client feel like you are just like them. This may be by changing your typical attire during the sales process. At the end of the day that client...
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#CRE needs to have a #hacker mentality.
NOTE: The title originally said “more of a #hacker mentality” but then it dawned on me that there really isn’t one to start with. It made me both sad and excited. Sad because we’ve been given the...
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Culture is more than just the internal workings of a company.
It’s time for our group’s annual summit – quite the gathering of some of the smartest people I can imagine working with. My favorite part of it is getting back together with people I haven’t ran into...
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Can you articulate the cultural difference in your city’s real estate?
Often times a building is a building. Individually they can quickly blend together. But collectively they articulate a city’s architectural (and perhaps cultural) legacy. When you go from one city to...
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Why Titles (and other organizational artifacts) eventually matter.
It only takes one to ruin a good thing. You can have the best hopes for a flat organization that doesn’t look at or care about titles but as soon as one person in an upper level position cares then...
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The best way to be successful on a long-term engagement is to hit the ground...
One of the biggest things that will cause you to fail on a new long-term engagement is to start slow. If you don’t hit the ground running, you won’t have the relationships, knowledge or track record...
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Online culture and its impact on the real world.
By now you’ve probably heard something about this thing called Gamergate. You probably have a lot of confusion about what it is and why it is a big deal. I encourage everyone to read up on it to...
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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....
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