At the highest levels, The Collier Companies (TCC) is about creating principled prosperity in a sustainable manner through commerce, generating value in the hearts and minds of Customers and then harvesting it.

TCC’s current expertise is in apartments, developing and operating, so at the next level the vision becomes more specific: “Proudly making your Home the Heart of Our Business while Proudly Supporting Team Members in becoming their Best Selves.” 

TCC’s 4 values can be universally applied to many forms of human endeavor, as can the last half of TCC’s Mission Statement and the beliefs held dear outlined below.

CANI: Constant and Never-ending Improvement

I&R: Applying Initiative and Resourcefulness to find solutions and improve, not just throw $$ at problems

E&E: Finding solutions that are both Efficient & Effective 

ITT: I Intend To: an empowering method of communication and coordination

Day in and day out execution is not a distraction from the mission; it is the mechanism through which the mission is accomplished. The Vision Is a Compass, Illuminating Principles, not a script or fixed set of instructions.

TCC believes in Stakeholder Capitalism, that we have a duty to all stakeholders in proportion to their stake. We detest cronyism capitalism and insider capitalism, any system not based upon merit and ability (granted, hard to measure at times).

TCC believes in Main Street America Values, best understood in contrast to short-term avarice all too often on display on Wall Street (while there is much to be said for the intelligent harnessing of self-interest for the common good, greed is NOT good).

TCC believes in the Art of the Long View: We aspire to be in the top 1% of our field, however our definition differs from most: TCC wants to be in the Top 25% EACH and EVERY Year for 25 years… and then we will be in the Top .1%!

TCC’s Values, Principles, and Mission Statement all embrace the Long View: Our Culture will not produce the bottom-line financial instant ‘results’ that slashing staffing to the bone or delaying maintenance or foregoing capital expenditures will, acts that result in ‘phantom profits’ which tend to reverse relatively quickly. However, over the long haul, TCC’s Culture Values, Principles, and Mission Statement will deliver performance sustainably and consistently far better than most.

Closing Quotes:

“We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things right.” – Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines

“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Gulliver’s Travels

“In a free market, where consumers have choices and the resources to exercise those choices, it is the business that makes the most people happy that prospers the most.” – NSC

“When your business prioritizes the wellbeing of all of its stakeholders, then all of those stakeholders gain respect for the business, and your business can utilize that respect as a sort of currency and a means to accomplish business objectives.” – Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier

Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832