The Orchestra That Never Rehearsed Together. Why the property industry needs a shared score - and a few more Mavericks.

Imagine an orchestra assembled from some of the finest musicians in the country for a prestigious co...

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More Than You Could Ever Imagine.

Every ceiling you have ever hit was built by a question. What do you do. Why do you do it. How do yo...

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IPSA Kind Of Magic: The People Behind The Partnership

There is something rather special about a good partnership. It is more than having two organisations...

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Stop Trying To Be The Best.

Become Their Only Pick. You want to get picked. Not once. Not by luck. You want people to choose you...

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Property Matters: Meet The Wellbeing Surveyor

What makes a house a healthy home?Most of us would probably say that a property needs to be structur...

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The Death of the Expert

The Artificial Competence Era. Somewhere in the last two years, the word "expert" quietly stopped me...

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Improvement Is Hard -

It's Also Unnecessary. I used to believe I needed to get better. At everything. Every year, a new co...

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The One Status You Can't Fake.

Sit across the table from enough people and you learn to tell the difference between someone who has...

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Building Safety Goes Back to Westminster

This week, building safety went back to Westminster.On Tuesday morning, Dr Al Pinkerton MP led a Wes...

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The Things We Think And Do Not Say.

A Personal Essay I've spent years telling agents that character isn't installed, it's uncovered. The...

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The Cage of The Three C's

C O M P E T I T I O N . C O M P A R I S O N . C O N F O R M I T Y . Nobody puts "trapped" on their v...

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The Scripts You'll Never Use.

Being Versus Doing You bought the objection-handling script. You bought the follow-up sequence. You ...

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Mind The Gap.

Part Three: The Agent Can't See it, But the Client Feels it. The agent walks out of the listing pres...

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The Book Brené Brown Calls Amazing...

The Thin Book of Trust. ...Has a Hole in the Middle Brené Brown has said she has used Charles Feltma...

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Sold On Your Own Desperation

The Dependency Economy A young salesperson posted a question online recently. Six months into a new ...

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Not For Everyone.

On Character A confession about feeling everything, saying little, and finally retiring from the exh...

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A Game With No Referee.

Potential · Part 2 of 5 Where Breaking The Rules Goes Unpunished. Last time I showed you competence'...

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The Mask They Haven't Found Yet.

The Dependency Economy — Part One of Three Somewhere in the coaching industry right now, someone is ...

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The Bridge No One Can Build For You.

On Becoming More You. No one is coming to build your career for you. Not the coach with the seven-st...

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The Asset With No Ceiling.

Potential · Part 3 of 5 Competence is capped by time, teachers, and the photocopier. Competition is ...

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The Congregation

Preaching to the Converted. Walk into a room full of agents at the wrong kind of conference and you'...

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You Cannot Get There. You Can Only Be There.

Trust, and the Illusion of Arrival There is a lie so comfortable that most people build their whole ...

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If You Want It, Come And Get It.

If You Want It, Come and Get It · Part 5 of 5 Underneath every cold call, every wide net, every fee ...

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The Category Error:

Principle & Process — Part One of Six Why Real Estate Confuses What It Does With Why It Exists A...

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Trust Isn't Four Things.

It's One Thing, Witnessed. Part one left a single factor standing after Feltman's four-factor model ...

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Mind The Gap.

Part four: The Bill the Agent Actually Pays. An estateagent operating inside the gap doesn't get to ...

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The Machine Doesn't Do Generous.

Structure  ·  Power  ·  Choice Corporate real estate is not broken. It is working exactly as designe...

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Be a Ford, Then a Sloan.

In June 1896, a Detroit engineer working nights in a rented shed finished the machine he'd spent mon...

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The Half-Life of a Discount.

Why "Value" Is the Dead End — Part Three of Five If you missed Parts 1 & 2, here's the link: Par...

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If They Can't Convince You, They Confuse You.

The Brand Within — Part One of Two - On Complexity, Trust & the Coaching Industry Richard Feynma...

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