Robert H Myers

Category: CVI

advice, Business Philosophy, Commentary, culture, CVI, history, Leadership, mission, musings, teams

March 8, 2023

We Are Who We’ve Been Waiting For

About a decade ago I was working a new job where it rapidly became clear that they needed a new everything. You name it, it needed to be overhauled, sourced, replaced, or jettisoned into space. We were going to need to create a property management company from scratch. Without any support of any kind. No…
advice, Bistro 106, Business Philosophy, culture, CVI, Leadership, mission, orlando student housing, student housing

June 3, 2016

Show Up. Or, Why Omelets Don’t Matter.

Note: this is a classic post from July 2012, hope you enjoy. We’re all presented with a thousand decisions in a day – even the ones we don’t make are technically decisions – and I observed a few today and I thought I would share as I feel they are: 1. Completely random – so…
Bistro 106, Case study, Cool Stuff, CVI, Leadership, Uncategorized

March 27, 2012

If You Build It: Leasing Through Better Meals?

One of the most interesting things about CVI-Orlando (Collegiate Village Inn) is that we have a dining hall and meal plans. NO ONE in off-campus student housing markets have these things – and for good reason. The cost to build a commercial kitchen and dining hall are staggering and the space they consume could be…