Have you ever done something with all the good intent, only to have it back fire? I did something the other day to my colleagues that was at best, received with mixed reviews. The impetus for my “life’s lesson” was the fact that I was hearing an all too common complaint, “I have too much
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Challenging the Status Quo – A Lesson in Time Management
July 12th, 2010posted by Stan Yoshihara, Chief Visionary Officer, R7
Gen Y’ers…Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them
May 11th, 2010posted by Stan Yoshihara, Chief Visionary Officer, R7
Okay, so I’m a Baby Boomer past 50 that’s not quite ready to retire, and in my former life oversaw 180 people or so, of which 20% to 25% fell into the Generation Y or Millennial category. If you don’t know this already, when it comes to work philosophy Baby Boomers and GenYers couldn’t be
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Collision Course – It’s All in the Culture
April 19th, 2010posted by Stan Yoshihara, Chief Visionary Officer, R7
R7 Real Estate has now been in existence for three months and I realize now that I have my work cut out for me. I was told that starting a new company is always difficult, but that couldn’t happen to me?! The reason that I partnered with an existing 10-year old firm and friends that
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The Origination of the Name for R7 Real Estate
April 13th, 2010posted by Stan Yoshihara, Chief Visionary Officer, R7
What’s in a name? Believe it or not we spent numerous hours and meetings discussing what our company name would be. One thing’s for sure…we decided that the name should have some meaning, symbolic of what we all represented both literally and from a spiritual sense too. We wanted people to remember our name readily
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Our First Month In Business
February 26th, 2010posted by Stan Yoshihara, Chief Visionary Officer, R7
Our first month in business as R7 Real Estate and a busy month indeed… I would like to thank everyone for their positive outpouring of good thoughts and confidence in our new venture. We’ve responded to a few RFPs already, have been awarded a consulting assignment and are on our way. Many people say that
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Living The American Dream…
January 21st, 2010posted by Stan Yoshihara, Chief Visionary Officer, R7
My grandparents immigrated to this country from Japan in the early 1900’s and began their stay in America living off the land as farmers. My parents were quick to follow suit, until my father completed college after WWII and then became an accountant for 40+ years. Both my mother and father had instilled in me
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