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My Boss is Killing Me

by Mike Brewer on January 30, 2012

Make note of everything you hate about the ledership style of your current boss and commit to never doing any of it when you have the chance to seize your opportunity to lead. – Tom Peters Paraphrase It doesn’t necessarily mean that they are bad people but every property management professional has come home professing; [...]

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Act like a Apartment Owner

by Mike Brewer on January 27, 2012

You have heard it a million times if you have heard it once. “Act like an owner.” But, how do you get employees to act like owners? As it relates to the statement; I have two questions I like to ask people. First one relates to leadership and specifically employee issues; If you owned this [...]

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As the #trust30 challenge winds down; we are gearing the next series of compelling content. The series will be dubbed 101 days of apartment marketing and will start July 3 when we wrap up #trust30. We were so inspired by the absolute discipline of the last series that we thought; why not try and continue [...]

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Day 25 of the #trust30 challenge – it’s a short and sweet one! I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering [...]

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Day 23 of the #trust30 challenge We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You just discovered you have fifteen minutes to live. 1. Set a timer for fifteen minutes. 2. Write the story that [...]

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It’s day 22 of the #trust30 challenge – we are coming down the stretch now. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson …What are your false comparisons? What are [...]

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One goal for any organization worth it’s salt is to serve its customers compellingly and profitably over a very long bit of time. How do they do that? The leaders in the organization understand that their chief goal is to serve the people that serve the organization. They do so through expanding people’s capabilities by [...]

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson For today, trying asking yourself often, especially before you make a choice, “What do I know about this?” (Author: Jen Louden) It’s an attention economy and there [...]

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It’s day 15 of #trust30 and it’s Friday! Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Write down your top three dreams. Now write down what’s holding you back from them. (Author: Michael Rad) Dreams Top three dreams 1. See my three children prosper in health, family [...]

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I would rather catch a tiger by the tail than have to light a fire under an elephant’s ass…

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