By Linda Carter The national, regional and local conversation is the same: It’s all about jobs. People want them and companies have them. So what’s the problem? Many influential and successful business leaders believe a huge skills gap exists. Recently, this issue bubbled to the surface...
By Darcie Lunsford The first major institutional-quality office project in Broward County since the Great Recession has opened its sleek, double-glass doors along I-75 in Pembroke Pines, adjacent to the upscale Shops at Pembroke Gardens outdoor shopping and lifestyle center. Duke Realty developed the 143,535-square-foot mid-rise, a...
By Gerry Czarnecki Fundraising is cause selling, and it takes the right combination of commitment, knowledge, insight and listening skills to convert prospects into donors. In the for-profit world, some of the best startup ideas fail because sales never happened. In the nonprofit world, if fundraising...
By Chris Fleck Aside from drones, hoverboards and 3-D TVs, the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show had a number of new technologies that are likely to show up at the workplace sooner, rather than later. Here are some of the innovations I found at this year’s event: A few...
By Greta Schulz CEOs today are in a quagmire. Because sales continue to be tougher than they used to be, they find themselves running their businesses and making CEO decisions, but also having to either manage a sales department or wear the sales hat themselves. What’s...
By Jim Fried This month, we did a remote broadcast live from the 10th-annual CCIM Outlook Conference in Miami, which was attended by real estate businesspeople from all over the country. (CCIM is a designation for commercial real estate experts.) I had the chance to...
By Steve Garber What do we really do on our own? Very little, if anything, at all! Your family is a team. Your medical care is a team. Your business is a team, even if you are a sole practitioner. Indeed, you are likely teeming with teams...
It was the summer of 1929 and Miami was buzzing with the extravagance of the Roaring ’20s economy. New innovators and business types had freshly relocated to the city after the Florida land boom, and the heat of July in Miami was in full swing....
Rail mass transit is already impacting commercial development as All Aboard Florida starts construction of 4 million square feet of mixed-use projects near its stations. The next big thing is an expansion of Tri-Rail service along the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway tracks that run through...
Most of the coverage of Mehmet Bayraktar’s Island Gardens development has come in snippets. A lot of it has dealt with the delays in bringing the $1 billion mega-yacht marina complex with residences, hotels and restaurants to fruition since it was first envisioned in 2001....
