Introducing compassion to your workplace has big benefits
Compassion not only improves workplace culture, but it can also help a company’s bottom line.
Employee retention
Would you want to work for a boss who yells at you when you call in sick? Or would...
Those things that ignite the soul
CSR initiatives encompass a company’s efforts to promote positive societal, economic or environmental change. The initiatives are self-regulated, and the scope and scale of CSR programs can vary widely.
The results, however, share common benefits....
You choose a job. A calling chooses you.
The attraction is simple. The business of apartments makes us believe, if even in scattered moments, that we can improve the lives we serve and make a living while doing it. How many lives?...
Shifting the power with an abusive boss
This flip approach is based on the understanding that power structures within organizations are malleable over time. Power at its core arises from dependency. The more one depends on another for reaching goals and...
Can’t fight that feeling
But the apartment industry is catching on with the help of partners like software provider Yardi, which tapped the hotel sector for cutting edge solutions to repeat business and extended leases during its 2017...
Weed and work
A growing number of states in the U.S.—and countries around the world—are legalizing or decriminalizing recreational and medical marijuana, forcing businesses to grapple with how to deal with employees who use the drug and...
Class warfare and how the Vietnam war finally ends
“He got rid of the intellectual elites,” said my guide. “Brutal—but I think it saved our country. I mean, consider what happens to a place when workers are devalued...”
I was dazed by his words....
Living as a service
Allen is head of the outreach and public affairs department of Agoda.com, the Asia-based subsidiary of Booking Holding. He also notes that several other waves of transformation are on the way.
The advent and rapid...
Everyone loves to be sold
The common thread throughout this wide and diverse sea of goods is identifying a solid value to the intended market.
Here’s a secret. Selling is not that hard. If you understand human behavior, you’re practically...
Coming to America
Immigration has become an increasingly prevalent and often polarizing topic within policy discussions, and its effect on the apartment industry cannot be understated. Immigrants are not only a vital component of the industry’s workforce,...
Emotional intelligence, our responsibility to Gen Y and Z
Although the term first appeared in a 1964 paper by Michael Beldoch, it gained popularity in the 1995 book by that title, written by the author, psychologist, and science journalist, Daniel Goleman.
Many employers have...
I’m afraid to blink.
Never before has the world been safer, freer, wealthier, or healthier.
In 2014, 54 percent of the nation’s counties had zero murders and more than half of last year’s murders occurred in only two percent...
History repeats itself
It’s happening again.
Once, knowledge was sequestered away on manuscripts in Monasteries only to be set free by the printing press. Suddenly, the Renaissance. The Reformation. The Industrial Revolution.
Men read, collaborated and created. Our modern...
How AI will change the way we make decisions
Rather than trying to predict specifics, we suggest an alternative approach. Economic theory suggests that AI will substantially raise the value of human judgment. People who display good judgment will become more valuable, not...
