Category: Leadership
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Which comes first? Talent or Belief?
This is the first of a series of posts dedicated to those who helped shape a major portion of who I’ve become at this point in my life. Melissa Lobozzo, this one’s for you. Which comes first? Talent or Belief? In 2004 I became a Property Manager for Paradigm Properties, and my first Regional Manager…
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What Have You Broken Lately?
The 80’s have been enjoying a nice little nostalgia revival in popular culture lately, as all of us who were children at that time are now having children of our own. My favorite part of the whole shtick is seeing all the old things I used to disassemble back then (dust buster, RC cars, Atari…
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If it’s all work, it won’t work.
At this time a year ago, it was all I could do to hang on with both hands. I’d just taken a new job running the largest student housing facility in the country and some months before that, I’d started my own company, MammothCan, LLC. The strain of either one individually would have been worthy…
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Success is Simply Luck?
What is talent? Malcolm Gladwell, somewhat famously, has said he believes talent to be the innate love of some particular pursuit – more so than most other people. Listening to Penn Jillette’s new audio book “God, No!” he states that the real trick to doing magic is simply the willingness of the magician to spend…
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Short Doesn’t Mean ‘Memorable’…
I had a realization today, as I addressed about a dozen members of our “Bistro 106” staff and it was this: Company culture best gets communicated through the stories we tell. We have this sign posted in a few places around the community – namely on the inside of doors from the kitchen to the…
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Don’t Mess With Texas, or The Power of Stories…
I had five meetings today. That’s a lot for me in my current position as I don’t typically have five in a week. I’d heard a maxim “The only people who enjoy meetings are the ones doing the talking” and it’s served me well. These meetings were different though – I had stories to tell.…
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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…
Robert H Myers 