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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Their boss would buy it, they would buy it, their CEO would buy it, and their spouse would buy it. Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. ” All the people you’re talking to in the real estate business only want to get a deal done.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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The Innovation Mindset in Action: Jerry Buss

Harvard Business Review

They are found not just in the world of business, although they do have strong leadership qualities and excellent business sense as a common core. Buss launched his career in real estate with $1,000 in 1959—a venture that proved lucrative. Innovation Leadership' They seize opportunities that others don''t dare to.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Competition Leadership Retail' It all seemed so big and complex and out of control.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. And I had to start at the bottom.”

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Miss Universe Connection

Coaching Tip

Only once did Trump steer the pageant away from temperate environments--in November, 2013, when Miss Universe took place in Russia. told the audience at a real-estate conference, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.We In 2008, Donald Trump, Jr.