Tag: PRO Reflections
America, the complicated.
In previous decades, the Great Depression inalterably shaped its own generation. It haunted my grandparents, and determined how they would work and save the...
Quick. Someone get us a new business model.
In Jeff Thull's classic business book, Mastering the Complex Sale, he stresses the importance of a salesperson first listening, then unraveling a customer's problem...
Waiting to exhale
Yet, Congress has been consumed over the past year with those things at the bottom of Americans' priority list: reducing health care costs (57...
The life of a bug
In the old-school novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915), the main character, Gregor, does just that. It's not so much that he bizarrely transforms...
Unintended consequences
The fact is, President Obama has caused us to care. Gallup recently reported that Americans are paying closer attention to political news than during any...
What do you believe?
I found the chirping crickets a curious sound effect after Carvey gushingly asked, "how about that President Obama?" I'm thinking the audience probably just...
Truth be told
The hope is that consumers, who account for 70 percent of the economy, will finally begin to spend. And while unemployment, real estate values...
Who says you can’t go back?
I always knew that I'd like this place. You don't have to look too far, to find a friendly face I feel alive when I'm walkin'...
Get your Sully on
Some were there to catch a glimpse of the unassuming captain, who so deftly belly-landed a disabled US Airways A320 jetliner in the Hudson River...
When Irish eyes are smiling
I shake my head in agreement because no one can win against the Irish drinking song argument. It's just one of those life-truths. In fact,...
That which defines us
I can, in no way, trivialize what's happening in the financial markets or certain segments of our economy, but it is all relative. And...
Truth and consequences
"America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands,...
You da man, Sam
Multifamily, after all, is the complete package: We have the bling (Pillars). We have the style (Luxury). And we're not only good looking, we're smart...
One punch can change everything
Association, after all, is pivotal to human existence. We touch on the association of smell and its impact on leasing apartments in our story, "Clearing...
Parable of the Post-It
I'm rather tall, so I figured I had already won the game and sat back down with a smile. "Now," he said, "I want you...