Who are you, and what is really important to you? How would the people in your life describe you and what drives you? Your spouse/partner? Your kids? Your friends? How would your colleagues at work - your peers, direct reporters, manager (if you have one), clients...
My May column discussed the business analysis tool known as SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats), a useful planning method for identifying the external and internal elements that can impact the sustainability of family wealth. There was mention of the critical nature of identifying the "Ts," or...
Summer in the tropics means rain and the start of hurricane season. While most forecasts are predicting a delightfully sleepy 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, thanks in part to El Niรฑo, it would take just one major hurricane to cause catastrophic damage. An independent study by disaster...
Lifestyle Media Group and South Florida Business & Wealth were named a Small Business of the Year by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce on Friday.LMG, which includes SFBW and 10 lifestyle publications, was the winner in the New Small Business Honorees Category. SFBW...
Stephen Nostrand, who was previously CEO of Colliers International South Florida, has joined NAI Miami as CEO and COO.Nostrand was most recently a senior VP at Avison Young Commercial Real Estate, which bought Colliers International in December.NAI Miami CEO Jeremy S. Larkin and COO Edward...
The year 2013 had just begun. Kyle Jones and his friend Joey Farrell were sitting at Tap 42 Craft Beer Bar & Kitchen in Fort Lauderdale. As they were drinking beer, they began shooting different ideas back and forth about starting a business together. Owning a...
Fort Lauderdale's Cypress Creek Road area might easily be described as a river of sprawl, in a canyon of mid-rise office complexes. Most people would probably drive right through it without having a second thought or turning a descriptive phrase. Despite its nondescript, eight-lane, tree-sparse...
Many may not know that South Florida has been a significant contributor to modern day technology achievements and is continuing to play a huge part in the next big tech boom: The Internet of Things. Our local tech history started with the IBM PC developed in...
Some of the most meaningful tips I have heard on brand building came from recent guests on my radio show. Branding guru Bruce Turkel joined me twice this month: once at the University of Florida's Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies Trends and Strategies Conference, and...
Zo goes strong into affordable housing NBA Hall of Fame member Alonzo Mourning is turning into a development force. Mourning's AM Affordable Housing and Housing Trust Group has closed on the financing of Courtside Family Apartments, a new 84-unit affordable housing development in Miami's historic Overtown neighborhood....
