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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

My friends were all doing sexier things like technology, communications, or financial services.” On Thanksgiving 1996, Mark’s bosses asked if he would consider leading the firm’s real estate effort. “I Just months after he joined the Conservancy in 2008, the financial crisis hit. I was getting bored.” Then we grew.

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Why it Pays to be a Contrarian

Strategy Driven

When I began to buy and sell commercial real estate in 1968 I was told that the market had been weak for years, and I was foolish to even consider that kind of investment. Take for example the financial crisis of 2008. In his famous poem, Robert Frost declared that he preferred to take “the road less travelled by.”

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N2Growth Blog

Business Publications Small Business Review | Newsletter for Small Business Owners Small Business Review’s e-letter is published bi-weekly and provides small businesses with information on the necessary evils of running their businesses. ** N2′s Top Pick for being of real value to small businesses. Inc.com Inc.

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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business Review

The family-owned business runs Puerto Rico’s largest media company&#8212 (GFR Media) as well as other companies focused on customer engagement (LinkActive) and real estate (Kingbird). Crisis brings opportunities to explore uncharted territories. These opportunities sprouted from the crisis. and Caribbean.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. — of manure a month. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. ” Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. While there are exceptions to every rule, don’t expect overnight success.

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