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LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Midsized Firms Can Survive a Cash Crisis

Harvard Business Review

The story of MBH Architects, a northern California firm that designs retail stores, conveys an important lesson on how to survive such a cash crisis. And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. economy (especially the real estate market) fell off the end of the table. firm in 1989.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need?

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Before the crisis, both countries had respectable debt profiles. One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone. The banking collapse has led, inexorably, to a collapse in the real economy. In March 2006, Spanish unemployment was 8.1

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will!

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6 And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006.

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Research: Hiring Chief Risk Officers Led Banks to Take on Even More Risk

Harvard Business Review

banks exploded in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, with disastrous consequences for American firms, markets, and households. By 2006 nearly one-quarter did. While CROs have largely turned away from risky derivatives since the credit crisis, their broader agenda of maximizing risk-adjusted returns has not changed.