Category: student housing
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Where Winners Spend their 2%
I don’t know if you remember but for close to a decade, starting around the mid-2000s, people couldn’t shut up about Steve Jobs. This seemed to coincide with the release of the iPhone, YouTube, and social media, which makes sense. All of the content seemed to herald Jobs as Tech-Jesus. The iPod was the second…
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Intention = Better Improvement
When people ask me what they can do to move up in their career I ask themwhat they got better at this past year. Oftentimes, the answer is a blankstare. There are certain things we get better at with just routine and repetition.Back in my teenage years, I got pretty sick at spinning a pizza…
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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…
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Business Culture, Prime Directives, and killing John Connor
I got sent this email yesterday, which was one I’d sent some three years ago while at CVI-Orlando. At the time we were six months into a $2 million renovation, and working concertedly to establish a new culture. When you’re trying to build culture, it’s important to be honest and authentically one’s self. People loathe artifice and…
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Personality trumps Plain, Every Time
Our new in-house, Marketing-Strike-Force-of-Awesomeness have been laying siege to the plain vanilla world of the tired & trite student housing adverts of old. Ben & Jerry themselves have trembled under the audacious show of flavor perpetrated by these skilled ninja-confectioners-of-imagination. Calling themselves the Triple Threat, these three complimentary legs of the tripod are the razor’s edge of our…
Robert H Myers 