Bring it!

I just returned from a trip to New York – business first in the city and then a couple of days in small cities to the north where the “leafers” come up from Manhattan and surrounding areas to enjoy the fall foliage. Everywhere I looked I saw the effects of intended and unintended change, stagnation, innovation, grit and so many other adjectives that can be used to describe what I saw and the thoughts that were provoked.

In New York we made time to visit One World, where the lessons are abundant and I could feel and see the energy of reverence and future opportunity. Walking the more than five miles from our hotel to Wall Street was a visual lesson in the diversity of the city. While I walked taking in the intense sights and sounds I was reminded of one of the big lessons of the previous days meeting of 100+ professionals brought together for a day of learning skills for their specific industry – Real Estate Valuation. For the most part it was a fairly standard day. Experts provided insight on impacting regulatory issues, new technologies and methodologies for the valuation of real estate and the halls were filled with peer to peer conversation about the industry at large. [CONTINUE READING HERE]