CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But most CEOs aren’t trained in navigating interpersonal conflicts. It’s usually not because their boards recommended it.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally. *Vision: A word picture of the future leading from now through near to far reality. You energize people to support your purpose or life signature with an overarching description of what you see. Related articles.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2021

Come to work some days a week; rest operate from home as far as possible. The CEO said the pandemic had shown that an alternative way of working was viable. City center office owners and builders are definitely worried about this new turn of events as it will leave a lot of office buildings empty and drive down real estate prices.

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Real Estate Social Capital Fashion Teamwork 59

LDRLB

JULY 28, 2011

This is the break from day-to-day operations; it is the organization’s future. By its very nature, the 1-pager doesn’t give you much real estate to work with, even with a small font. No matter the company type, the CEO is responsible for increasing shareholder value. The strategic plan is not the annual budget.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. What kind of CEO displays his biggest failures on the wall of his office? I still choose all of our real estate. TXRH operates on four core values: partnership, passion, integrity and fun.

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Teams are meant to work collaboratively, which means to walk-through, debate, and likely reshape the idea before making a call. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Alphabet (Google) moved their social innovation lab (Jigsaw) out of the organization so that it could operate independently. Avoid creating it under the auspices of a strict operational or financial leader determined to conform the outputs to legacy metrics. Total Secrecy Is Totally Wrong.

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Innovation Real Estate Management Metrics 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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. If you want your corporate voice and brand to be viewed on the Blogosphere you need to speak with Debbie.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same. estate that lies ahead.

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LDRLB

JULY 28, 2011

This is the break from day-to-day operations; it is the organization’s future. By its very nature, the 1-pager doesn’t give you much real estate to work with, even with a small font. No matter the company type, the CEO is responsible for increasing shareholder value. Measure it. Monitor your progress.

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Strategic Planning Planning Real Estate Brand 68

CO2

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

At a commercial real estate company, however, a daily check-in might feel more onerous than necessary. Weekly Operational Meetings. Weekly operational meetings should be kept under 90 minutes. If you’re looking for a new approach to weekly meetings, try using the 5/15 report developed by CEO Yvon Chouinard.

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Balanced Scorecard Review Strategic Planning Real Estate 79

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. Other activists have expertise in development and commercial real estate.

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CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Airbnb has pushed the limits of designing its customer call center operation in Portland, Oregon. The notion that the creation of the workplace environment is solely a real estate concern is an outdated concept. In fact, CEOs are starting to focus on how the workspace can lead to improved productivity.

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Real Estate Call Center Hedge Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. Given the rising cost of urban land, real estate markets cannot satisfy this need on their own.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What if the train lines weren’t operating again, or facing multiple-hour delays? As CEO of our company, whatever rules I might establish needed to cover both business continuity and appropriate concern for our colleagues’ safety. Managing people Operations management' Would we be open? But we also demand flexibility.

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Real Estate Policies Operations Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

When we started to look at new locations for our call center operations, we initially considered outsourcing to India or the Philippines and met with a few potential providers. Since the sale, we’ve learned from Amazon’s technology: We’ve started to track some metrics Amazon tracks, and we’re learning how it thinks about warehouse operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father, Jaya Tan, retired three years ago as the CEO of our family''s business, the Martapura Group, relinquishing control to a nonfamily CEO to ensure that the company would regain its strength and grow. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. Family Friction.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

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? Social Media Influence [.]

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We believe the answer is yes. Truly, business interests and societal interests can be one and the same.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Most executives, rightly, regard strategy creation and achieving operational effectiveness as two very different animals. Strategy, they believe, is about how to create value for customers; operational effectiveness is about how to do so at the lowest cost. In fact, that's how several disruptive business models have emerged.

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Airlines Real Estate Operations Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

In their initial pool of only 20 candidates, just two with 100 or more employees had been operating fully and successfully in that mode for at least five years. One was an East Coast investment firm called Bridgewater Associates, the other a West Coast real estate and movie theater management company called Decurion.

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Real Estate Competitive Advantage Class Insurance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Offutt, the CEO, had named a time when they could meet. How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? Sarah, an experienced real estate consultant, had always been happy to help. It’s that board I’m on — the real estate company.”

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Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. But if you go to the operational side of the institution, they feel investing capital is the business of their money managers, so they in turn pass the buck or avoid the decision entirely. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists. This makes it difficult to justify investment in change management with the rigor that a data-driven CEO or CFO might expect.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job. It's easier to meet Community Reinvestment Act targets with housing and real estate than with business loans.

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Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

The real estate tycoon and TV celebrity’s ongoing success as a presidential candidate shows that he has clearly struck a chord with many voters. On his return, by partnering with Tim Cook in operations and Jony Ive in design, he was able to lead Apple to greatness. Donald Trump is an official phenomenon.

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Real Estate Proposal Policies Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

The CEO — the public face of the company — is bombarded with requests. That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Browsing the Forbes 500 , she read about a billionaire real estate mogul who lived in her city.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Cities are much more than the built environment of roads and real estate. In the 1980s, Cleveland Tomorrow , a coalition of major company CEOs, sponsored downtown projects, including a new baseball stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cities are about relationships, and whether people have access to opportunities.

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Real Estate Class Education Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

The CEO of a large real estate development company recently complained to me about a frustrating executive team meeting he’d just finished. The CEO believed this to be the culprit behind the slipping performance, and knew everyone on the team shared his view. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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How To Real Estate Follow-up Team 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We hear from business leaders who perceive that flexible work is a make-people-feel-good play that disrupts operations and drags down performance. Technology has advanced so much that we're much more able to manage remotely," Anna Patruno, global head of financial business operations for the finance division of Thomson Reuters, told us.

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Productivity Products Real Estate Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

What’s the real story? Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. There’s too much physical real estate for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2015

Yet most companies are using the same old methods: strategic plans, goal-setting, streamlining operations, reducing inefficiency. Jim Mallozzi, CEO of Prudential Real Estate and Relocation, consulted with Cameron during a difficult merger of two companies and during a time when his company was undergoing severe financial loss.

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Positioning Productivity Products Team 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. Over 968 million people access it daily. Close to 1.5 billion people view it at least monthly.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, has decided that GE needs to navigate its own digital transformation.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8