Business

How Hidden Agendas Impact Organizational Success

“In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.” —Michael Jai White Hidden agendas make it impossible to unite your team and achieve shared success. They destroy trust and eliminate any hope for transparency. When hidden...

On The Brink and Out the Door: How Employers Can Build a Culture that Matters

I was in the car not long ago listening to an episode of the Dave Ramsey Show (http://bit.ly/NfZIDm) when a caller was describing to Dave how her husband was ready to quit his six-figure income because of a toxic work environment that had pushed him to the brink. I couldn’t help but wonder how a...

Life, Work, and Discovering Your Why: Finding Balance in a Unstable World

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln Architect Frank Lloyd Wright once told of an incident that may have seemed insignificant at the time, but had a profound influence on the rest of his life. The winter he was 9, he went walking...

Casey Kellermann and Noell Smith form new DI-based real estate firm

A few years ago, a relocated northerner helped a native southerner find his dream home on Daniel Island. Despite (or perhaps in part because of) their regional disparities, Casey Kellermann and Noell Smith became fast friends. Over time, the more trivial exchanges like the virtues of biscuits over...

Relationships: The Fuel of Your Company Culture

The purpose of life is not to be happy, it is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Emerson Some time ago I came across this story of 76- year old Bill Baker. If you think your family has problems, consider the...

Sunny and George Wiltse join Prestige Real Estate Group

Prestige Real Estate Group announced the addition of husband and wife team, Sunny and George Wiltse, to the company this week. Sunny joins Prestige with a 14 year background in the hospitality industry in Virginia and Washington, DC and five years of country club management in New Jersey. George...

Art of the Deal

What has been a long time coming, a large portion of 225 Seven Farms Drive (formerly known as the Ryland Building), has been sold to new local owners. For the past six years, approximately 60% of the building has been in receivership, meaning an outside company has managed the property with...

Three Characteristics of Exemplary Leaders

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, see how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control. – Tom Landry A story is told of Gen. George C. Marshall when upon taking command of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, GA, found the post in a generally run-down...

Four Attitudes for an Extraordinary New Year

Welcome to 2016! As we kick off the New Year we are once again reminded of resolutions made, resolutions kept, and resolutions that fell by the wayside. What about you? Did you make any resolutions? In a post on Static Brain (http://bit.ly/1bI3WMg) the Top 10 resolutions of 2015 were to lose weight...

10 Courtesies Every Leader Should Remember

Courtesy – Excellence of manners or social conduct; polite behavior. –Random House Dictionary “Everything rises and falls on leadership,” says John Maxwell. He’s right. The temperament of a leader is an important ingredient that goes a long way in determining his or her success. In short; behaviors...