Bulgarski XOT ΔOΓ
Bulgarski XOT ΔOΓ In spring of 1993, my phone rang on a Friday. Could I be in Sofiya, Bulgaria on Monday to teach a class? This sort of thing happened at Andersen, usually because someone…
On leaving New Orleans, July, 2006
When I checked messages at the airport, there was one from Mom saying that she hoped we’d had an interesting trip to New Orleans. Interesting Not the usual word that you find in sentences about…
Remembering Bob
October 2, 1961-March 8, 2000 Bob was wearing his green Stevenson Patriots jacket that said “Yearbook Photographer ” when I met him. He was backstage at Fiddler on the Roof, and he seemed to be…
Financial Reporting Comes Of Age
The meltdown of an accounting powerhouse, brings another, similar change to mind. In the late 1980s, after the S&L collapse, government and appraisers alike tried to fix the “appraisal problem.” Inadequate appraisal standards, it seemed,…
Finding the new balance
The balance has shifted. An empty train car and no saxophone music. These were the first tangible manifestations of change. A client needed me in California in late September, and I took the subway to…
In the flesh… and online
You shouldn’t have missed it. Odds are, you did. About 15% of Counselors attend a given meeting. Those who do are accustomed to seeing the same faces, which means that, you probably missed the Chicago…
The Counselor – July, 2000 – It’s not your only group
Last week I went to a fly-in conference of another organization. Its focus was on corporate real estate issues facing financial institutions. The material was deep and loaded with detail. The speakers were the top…
The Counselor – Fall, 2000 – Globalization, at last
Real estate is the final frontier for business trends. Its long life, illiquidity, and inconsistency mean that any sea change hits everyone else first. Globalization, an established factor in most sectors, is finally touching real…
The Counselor – April, 2000 – What’s it mean for real estate?
How should real estate respond to e-commerce? We’re all asked this question more and more frequently, and yet the landscape changes on a daily basis. The mid-year Toronto meeting to get the CRE perspective. But…
The Counselor – January, 2000 – And so, back to work
The year 2000 is here, and Y2K is behind us. What to do with excess supplies of canned food, bottled water and mild chagrin? Surely there are more pressing issues ahead of us. It’s time…
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