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values: What Is A Professional? - 11/02/07 08:54 AM
I often hear REALTORS talk about themselves as professionals. Usually they do it with a Rodney Dangerfield, “I don’t get no respect” attitude. They sound defensive and angry. “Why doesn’t the world acknowledge me as a professional? And why don’t people understand that real estate is a profession, just like medicine or law?” Almost always, the focus of their anger is external. “Why doesn’t NAR do a better job of promoting us? Why don’t people realize my skills and training and dedication? Why doesn’t somebody (not me) fix this?”
But what is a profession? Webster defines a profession as: a vocation … (12 comments)
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values: Put Your Heart In Internet Marketing - and a lot of other things - 10/01/07 09:56 AM
Alan Alda, in his new book, "Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself," quotes a famous rabbi in explaining what makes a good talk: "What comes from the heart goes to the heart."That's powerful stuff.
It also relates to your Values. There too, if it's not in your heart, in other words, if you don't believe it, you cannot own it. And if you don't own it, you cannot convey it to others through your actions, the most authentic form of communication.If you try to fake it, you become inauthentic, a phony, hollow. The best you can hope for is that … (16 comments)
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values: Relationships - New Definitions For Old Words - 01/29/07 10:51 AM
“Oh the times they are a changin.” Dylan, you poet/prophet, you. I hear a lot of Realtors talking about the fact that, no matter how much information is made available, people still want and need the warmth and security of caring human relationships and that, technology notwithstanding, relationships will still form the foundation of business and the future of Realtors. I’m trying hard to agree.But what if we’re all wrong? What if relationships as we currently define them become a relic of the past? What if what most people want from a relationship radically shifts? How could that happen? In case … (28 comments)
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values: SEX Is A Value - 01/12/07 07:02 PM
Jeff Turner demonstrated to the AR community (and perhaps the world, if word gets around) that SEX IS A CORE VALUE. Look at all the millions of dollars spent by lobbyists, politicians, religious leaders and "righteous" citizens to get rid of SEX on TV, movies and print media. Those efforts will never be successful. We could better use the money on sex education and promoting the acceptance of SEX as an appropriate topic of conversation anywhere, anytime, even in the presence of small children and certain members of Congress who act like they never heard of it.
Jeff demonstrated that the … (12 comments)
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values: Values – Clarity Matters - 01/10/07 10:31 PM
I read a response from TLW (The Loving Wife) to my blog entitled: Unseen Forces: It All Begins With Your Vision (Part 2). TLW talked about some of her views on clarity and how the blog perhaps has her rethinking some of her ideas. I’ve experienced, for example, that my definition of quality, or integrity, or trust might be different than yours. So even when we agree on the words and think we have a common understanding, we still might not agree on how we’re going to act in accordance with those words. That can have huge implications when we’re dealing … (17 comments)
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values: Values, The War on Terror, And The Future of Real Estate - 01/09/07 01:15 AM
It was 6:30 a.m. Sunday.
I had just returned from driving a friend to the airport and flipped on one of the cable news channels (C-SPAN). They were doing an interview with the head of Information Technology for NSA (the National Security Agency). NSA, in case you don’t know, is the newly formed “uber” agency that is supposed to become the central repository for all information from all the databases from all the security agencies. It will be the one source for cross checking, verifying and analyzing the zillions of bits of seemingly disparate information on terrorism so that we can … (13 comments)
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values: Unseen Forces: It All Begins With Your Vision (Part 2) - 01/04/07 11:26 AM
I said in my previous post that I would share Jeff’s Vision for his former company. This was it:We will revolutionize newspaper advertising.We will achieve this by creating an organization where:People enthusiastically, freely and openly share ideas.Ideas are turned into actions and innovative solutions.People are excited about quality, excellence and being the best.Everyone is a missionary of excellence.People willingly accept responsibility.Newspapers seek us out to help them think about and implement new ways of doing business.At the time it was created, a lot of people read this and thought it was something that someone wrote in an afternoon. Not so. It … (13 comments)
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values: Unseen Forces: It All Begins With Your Vision (Part 1) - 01/03/07 01:43 AM
Jeff Turner has written meaningfully and powerfully about his Values – a subject near and dear to my heart. In a business, Values play out in the context of what the business is all about. That dynamic can create harmony or conflict. If your Values (defined by your behavior) support your reason for being, you are fortunate. Your energy and your actions are moving you in the direction you want to go. You are more energized, more focused, more productive. Jeff didn’t write about the step he took before he defined his Values. It was this.In planning a business, or a … (23 comments)
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