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Stand By Me
Ah, life! It has its twists and turns, its mountains and valleys. In challenging times we discover interesting things about ourselves and others. It is…
July 7, 2010
Continuous Change: 1000%, 1% at a Time
The Collier Companies recently sent our entire team of six regional community managers (RCMs) to New Orleans for a National Apartment Association conference. RCMs typically…
July 6, 2010
EQ: The Beginning of Rapport and a Relationship
IQ primarily deals with math and verbal skills; vital and important, but in today’s increasingly interdependent world, where the fast-growing service sector increasing dominates and…
June 22, 2010
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
“’A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,’ Vinod Khosla laments to Larry Page (co-founder of Google). The two Silicon Valley luminaries are chatting one…
June 15, 2010
Kill Your Television!
One of the great blessings of my childhood is that we did not have a TV set until I was in the 8th grade. Yes,…
June 1, 2010
Book Smarts vs. Street Smarts: “Rethinking the MBA”
“Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads” (by Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen; Harvard Business Press) is an examination of…
May 14, 2010
Is an A Really a B?
Grade inflation is back. After a big episode during the Vietnam war to protect students’ draft deferments, grade inflation re-emerged in force starting in 1986,…
May 10, 2010
Entrepreneur’s Manifesto
The bright side of economic downturns is that they force everyone to examine all aspects of their lives, question protected interests and make hard choices,…
April 28, 2010
Everyday Leaders
It is the task of a leader to bring out the best in people. And, we ALL are leaders. We all are examples, role models,…
April 16, 2010
The Importance of Being a Good Follower
Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Company’s president & CEO, arrived at Ford from Boeing three and a half years ago. An engineer by training, he brought…
April 9, 2010
A Driving Fear of Failure
“Early on in my career, I recognized that I was not always the smartest individual in the groups I worked in, but I had a…
April 7, 2010