13 Aug
Being The Pointy Haired Boss
Posted August 13th, 2007 | View Comments
We have a sales meeting tomorrow. This is something of a big event at Elite Properties, because we don’t have sales meetings very often.
Let me put it this way: if we started having them once per month, we’d be moving in the direction of getting more corporate.
Being the pointy haired boss, in the last couple of days I’ve been putting together some good pointy haired boss stuff, to make sure we do our paperwork flawlessly.
The joke in real estate is this: if it weren’t for paperwork, we’d have no work at all. I’m a pretty good pointy haired boss about the paperwork, because I come from a background in software, which is a similar “devil is in the details” sort of operation.
Real Estate at the Broker level is genuine nerd work. I’m right at home.
Fortunately for me (and for our clients), I also seem to have one non-nerd quality that has been really helpful: I almost invariably pick really good people to work for me — or they pick me. Our transaction coordinator, Becky Nagel, has been tremendously helpful on the detail side of things, and our agents have also been very patient with me as I relentlessly pursue getting our transactions done flawlessly.
