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 Coaches Who Broke The Industry.

Article 1/3 -The Manipulation You Mistook For Motivation. Tom Ferry built an empire teaching agents ...

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Worth - That Doesn't Need a Closing.

The Mask Trap — Part 4 of 5 A place to stand that doesn't move every time the market does. Here's a ...

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It's Not Your Fault.

The realestate training industrial complex. You didn't design the script. You didn't invent the obje...

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If You Want It, Come And Get It.

If You Want It, Come and Get It · Part 1 of 5 The Knock at Dinner Time The entire prospecting machin...

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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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Coaching Is Tuning The Wrong Instrument.

Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part Four Here's what a tuning fork cannot do, no matter how skilled th...

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Mind The Gap.

Part Five: The Coach's Business Model Needs the Gap Open. Tom Ferry, Tom Panos, Ricky Carruth. Diffe...

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Every Conversation is a Confession.

Character  ·  Choice  ·  Trust Consumers can't always explain why they trust one agent and not anoth...

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The Physics of Trust:

Principle & Process — Part Three of Six Why Cooperation Outperforms Competition Over Time Every ...

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Evergreen.

Scroll for five minutes and count what remains. A hot take, gone by lunch. A trend, dead by dinner. ...

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.

Stay in the Boat. Somebody at a conference stood at a podium and told a room full of agents that onl...

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Find The One Domino...

The Brand Within — thebrandwithin.me ...Everything else falls. The wrong order The industry taught a...

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Simplify Instead of Amplify

Real estate has confused being seen with being known. Open any #estateagent's feed and you'll find t...

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Are You Still Playing Small?

Playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? That line gets attributed to Ne...

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Character Beats The Hustle Trap

Competition is for #realestateagent losers. Comparison is for losers. Conformity is for losers. Don'...

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Trust & Respect Are Not Interchangeable.

Trust  ·  Policy  ·  Character The UK government has a plan to fix the trust deficit in estate agenc...

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You're An Expert, Congratulations.

So is Everybody Else. Open ten #realestateagent profiles in your area. Read the bios. Count how many...

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The Space Only You Can Own.

Here is a thing nobody tells you when you start out in real estate, or coaching, or anything where y...

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Not Either/Or, but Both/And.

Sequence Competence versus character is not a competition. Both matter. The coaches like to argue ab...

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The Lost Art of Being Yourself.

Trying Too Hard to Be Liked Don't laugh. This is genuinely happening. An identity crisis, entirely s...

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The Belief They Need You To Keep.

Part Two of Three On the method sold as the fix, and the business model that depends on it never qui...

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What If Every Flavour Was Vanilla?

Not every flavour is for everyone. That's not a flaw in the ice cream case, it's the entire point of...

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Why Don't You Like Me?

The Approval Series — Part One of Three The coaching industry didn't just teach estate agents the wr...

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The Men Who Cashed Out.

Trust & Industry — Part 2 of 2 The Men Who Cashed Out Every industry has architects. Real estate...

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When Vendors Get The Wrong Agent.

The Wall Nobody's Rebuilding Something happens when it goes wrong. Not that the property fails to se...

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Trust is Not a Skill. It's a Decision.

Every industry that sells you competence is quietly selling you a lie: that if you just get good eno...

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