Putting your best pitch forward in a society of salespeople
So when Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind, ran across statistics showing that one in nine Americans worked in sales in 2000 and that the same proportion of people worked...
Obama picks former prosecutor to head SEC
Mary Jo White, former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has an extensive record of prosecuting white-collar crime, won convictions in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 terrorist attacks on two U.S. embassies...
Stop listening to your residents
But regardless of how you go about asking the question, you need to recognize that there is a fundamental problem with asking people what will persuade them to change: Most of the time they...
Multihousing has recovered 70 percent with outlook strong: NAHB
The market for multifamily housing has recovered "substantially" since 2010 and is around 70 percent of the way back to a sustainable level, NAHB said. "Last year was a banner year for the multifamily market,...
Gallup on the ropes
But lately, Gallup's name has been tarnished by a whistle-blower lawsuit and a suspension from winning federal contracts. Gallup's roots stretch back to 1922, when its founder, George Gallup, was a college junior. He got...
It’s a mod, mod world
Two years ago, Bruce Ratner sought to ease a shrinking budget and appease swarms of critics who lambasted the original rendering for a residential tower at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn as a "Lego-like" atrocity. Like...
Beware of comfort dog
Attorney Tarin S. Hale calls it extortion. In October, an elderly Ohio landlord was ordered to pay $22,000 in damages for alleged housing discrimination practices at a rental she owns. Hale then received a bill...
Made in America holidays
I was mesmerized. I opened and closed the book, slowly, gently, considering the long and arduous process required to publish a book back then. I thought about the person who read it first. I...
iPerks: How Apple seeks to woo employees
These perks, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, include new discounts on Apple products, a program that matches employees' personal charitable contributions up to a set amount, and "Blue Sky," which...
The big split
Equity Residential and AvalonBay will together pay $2.69 billion in cash along with stock valued at $3.8 billion, N.Y.-based Lehman announced. The buyers, the two biggest U.S. apartment landlords by market value, will also...
Even more shades of grey
The number of centenarians worldwide will double by 2023, and double again by 2035. Projections suggest life expectancy will surpass 100 in some industrialized countries by the second half of this century-roughly triple the...
The dark side of charisma
However, the short-term benefits of charisma are often neutralized by its long-term consequences. There are big reasons to resist charisma: Charisma dilutes judgment. There are only three ways to influence others: force, reason, or charm....
Expert: more people becoming workaholics
Eda Kalkay had everything she needed to walk down the aisle. But she is such a "workaholic" that she worked on her wedding day and then tried to tuck her smart phone into her...
Don’t worry, be happy
"We think that an improving single-family market is a good thing for the apartment markets and the economy as a whole," Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo said at the beginning of November. "Single-family and...
In it to win it
Setting objectives For any type of employee incentive program, your property management team must feel the goals are attainable and realistic. An incentive program should also fit into your company's overall business strategy and be...