Before being hired by CWS, I had to do a personality profile that literally was an all-day affair. One of the questions I remember required me to fill in the blank after starting off with “Happiness is_____”. Without much reflection,
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Lessons in Leadership and Civility from Lincoln
I was flipping through the television channels last week, and I came across Ken Burns’s last episode of his Civil War documentary. It is such a highly regarded series and one in which I hope to see from beginning to end someday. I have always been fascinated by the Civil War,
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Be Indispensable!
Like many people who have had long careers and experienced the inevitable ups and downs that go with any long-term venture, I often reflexively respond to those asking for life-changing advice by telling them to do what you love. Actually, it’s more do what you’re passionate about,
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Playing and Living Fiercely
Last week I wrote about the epiphany I had of focusing on loving to win versus hating to lose and how I savored a great forehand that I hit playing in a tennis tournament even though I lost. This led me to focus much more on the satisfaction of that great forehand versus what I didn’t do well or on the mistakes I made.
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Pedigree or Motivated Outsiders - Who Makes the Best Money Managers?
Carl Icahn has clearly done enormously well over the years in compounding capital through his highly aggressive, activist approach to investing. He is not shy about expressing his opinions, sometimes in a Trumpesque manner, to call out underperforming management teams, changes he thinks they should make to increase returns to shareholders and the performance of the business and to get more involved to either make changes and/or hold management teams more accountable.
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Two Years Later - Learning To Love To Win More Than Hating To Lose
A couple of weekends ago, I played in a tennis tournament. Then on the following Monday evening, I played doubles from 5:00 to 6:30, followed by a clinic from 7:00 to 8:30. Proving there’s no rest for the weary, the next morning, I had a training session from 6 to 7 and then played singles from 8:00 to 9:30.
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Managing Money Also Requires Managing People
As an investment management company, CWS’ investors naturally look to us to deliver compelling returns relative to the risk we are taking. Since the capital entrusted to us is deployed into businesses that we purchase (apartment communities) or create (the development of apartment communities),
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True Wealth - How to Know if You Are Truly Wealthy?
This week I will return to one of the videos that I shot on true wealth to discuss various elements of my book that I think communicate the most important messages. Hopefully they will inspire one to read the book versus feeling like they have already read it!
Let’s start with a basic question –…
The Art of Being Driven to Action
I’ve been focused on my book the last few weeks so I thought I would focus on some other authors and convey some of the wisdom I’ve discovered from them.
One of the reasons I enjoy my Kindle so much is that it tracks all of my highlights and notes which makes it very easy to go back and review them.
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Men, Women, and the Value of Doing Nothing
Let us put men and women together
See which one is smarter
Some say men, but I say no
The women got the men like a puppet show
It ain’t me –
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