Apartment Leadership
How
I just finished reading a book called Remarkable Leadership by Kevin Eikenberry which I highly recommend. I have now moved on to a book called how…
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The Dream Manager
For those of you who know me, you know that I fell for this book the second I laid eyes on the title. Keep the wit and sarcasm to yourself. On second thought share if you must…
I will be digging into this book next week and will share my thoughts at some point as it relates to apartment marketing, apartment management or leadership of amazing apartment professionals.
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Internal Blog
Seth quips on the value of an internal blog. I set up an internal blog for the Portland Area of Equity Residential, the largest owner operator of apartments in the country. It lives on today despite the fact that I left the company some 8 months ago.
It is aptly titled; Portland Rocks Newsletter and it is full of the amazing accomplishments of the the amazing people that make up the portfolio dating back to 2006. It has and continues to be an enormous boon to the innate sense of awesomeness this group has come to enjoy.
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Action is a character in collaboration
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The purpose of my post today is to expose the, "they’s and them’s" that hold great apartment manageent teams back.
Let’s start with the Number 1 "They/Them;" Those who have nonactionitis. You know the ones; we can’t do that because…, we tried that and…, yeah, but…, I hate to play devil’s advocate here, but…!
All that being said there is value to an alternative view and or opinion. I know that to be true in my world as I tend to be the guy with the way over there ideas and if I didn’t have people around me willing to slow me down or temper my focus then I would surely be void.
I firmly believe it is all in how you couch it.
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I feel like I am a highly paid baby sitter
Have you ever said that? I know I have at different times in my property management career; right wrong or indifferent. I read the following quote today and had an a-ha! moment.
"If you treat employees like children, they will behave that way."
–Margaret Heffernan , author, “The Naked Truth“
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