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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution. About the Author.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

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. The plan is to send out these brief descriptions through email and see who gets back to us.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. TJ is still considering his plans once he graduates.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand are the tech start-ups, who advocate for open office plans that emphasize chance encounters. Her work revealed challenges in four key areas: communication in planned meetings, ad-hoc conversations, awareness of teammates and their work, and building trust relationships between teammates.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

Frank at Sagapixel told me about a conversation he had with Eric Diaz, a prominent real estate attorney in Philadelphia. If you have your own law firm, you’ve probably already decided about the “place” of your firm without realizing that that decision is a crucial part of your marketing plan. Can You Create a Niche?

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Have a backup plan. And as much as it might pain you to consider, think regularly about a Plan B, in the event the family business — or your place in it — hits tough times. “Have an exit plan,” says Lachenauer. Have a Plan B. “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development.