At one time I read about Jack Welch’s six key rules in Forbes magazine. Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric for 20 years. He was instrumental in leading General Electric into a higher level of dominance in the marketplace. Let me share with you the real estate application to these six rules.
1. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. This rule has a few key components for REALTORS®.
A. Today is the only reality you have. What are you going to …

We are all leaders; in our families, churches, temples, lodges, clubs, businesses and fraternal organizations.
Have you ever heard of a Cult Manager? Yet where have we ever seen more loyalty, commitment and blind obedience? No such thing as a Religious Manager. There’s a huge difference between management and leadership. “Semantics”, you say. When I went to Hotel School I was taught how to be a Hotel Manager. I found that I had to become a Leader in order to gain the loyalty and commitment of my staff.
When I first arrived …

Warren Buffett is a great inspiration for all entrepreneur out there and learning about his success should be mandatory for all CEO wannabe out there. There are many great books about him and we could recommend the Warren Buffet way as a good starter.
Superior business leader and American investor Warren Buffett is often called “Oracle of Omaha” or the “Sage of Omaha” and philanthropist. (Wikipedia, 2007) Buffett is the CEO, and the biggest shareholder of the Berkshire Hathaway Company. Buffet’s has an estimated current net worth of approximately $52 billion …

Transforming a group of diverse individuals into a high-performance team is a monumental task. Although teams have both strengths and weaknesses the ability to constructively exploit the strengths while improving upon the weaknesses is a challenge that most organizations will ultimately face. Accordingly a group that transcends these difficulties will eventually go on to develop the attributes that will effectively allow it to become a high powered team. While there are numerous models that can help to illustrate the elements necessary for team building Bruce Tuckman’s Forming – Storming …

A couple of years out of college, my future wife, Anne, moved to Washington State from Wisconsin where she’d been living. She and her roommate pulled a large U-Haul trailer with all their worldly possessions on the long trip. They reached the Continental Divide, and it was Anne’s turn to drive, as they headed toward the western side of the mountains. The beauty of the pristine snow against a piercing blue sky, the crisp air and the dramatic vistas of the Rocky Mountains refreshed them from their many hours …