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LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Team Alignment Session for High Growth for Real Estate Services Firm

LSA Global

This global high growth real estate services firm wanted to ensure their sales strategy was on track before investing the time and resources in business sales training to accelerate their ability to qualify, pitch to executives , negotiate, and close. High growth goals and success metrics. Ideal target client profiles.

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Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Tom Spencer

These asset classes can include public equities/stocks, fixed income/bonds, money markets, commodities, infrastructure, real estate and alternative strategies – including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. As such, asset manager performance tends to be correlated with stock market performance. T Rowe Price.

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

These securities, which were backed by real-estate mortgages, were sold to investors as a safe investment. As a result, the value of many of these securities plummeted to zero when the housing market crashed. However, many of the mortgages had been issued to people who could not afford them.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

Ultimately, as I have become skilled in using this metric, it has become a calculation I am able to do in my head. Let’s say an interview or speech to 100 doctors or real estate experts would require preparation in an area you’ve never fully studied before. Appreciation.