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Labor Issues Affect Location Decisions | The Corporate Real Estate Factor

In this article from LBx Journal, Wayne Gearey discusses: The difference between retail and corporate real estate assumptions when it comes to deciding on a location; The profile of a location advisory professional; Modeling of the business assumptions vs. mapping assumptions; and Location strategy as a service, as a business model for follow-on services INTRODUCTION: …

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Why Executives Hate Social Media

Consider this your own personal backstage pass to the inner sanctum of the Executive Suite.

Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery from Microsoft

Microsoft Street Slides.

Generate an isochrone map using Google Maps Api | Flying memes

Isochrone maps are pretty useful instruments that shows lines of equivalent drive time or travel time to a given location; they can be used in many statistical research, for example to find out which portion of a city can reach a  given hospital within ten minutes drive. Unfortunately isochrones drawback is that each time you …

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135 cost savings ideas—from CRE portfolio and organizational strategies

Their strategies are not earth-shattering—recasting leases, utility cost reduction, alternative workplace strategies, dispositions of excess properties—but it’s hard not to be impressed by some of the savings totals, in the tens of millions of dollars.

Fast Company: The Influence Project

How influential are you in the online community?

The Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key in 1814

The Star Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key in 1814, adopted as the National Anthem of the United States of America. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched were so …

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Beware: New Lease Accounting Guidelines Coming!

If the two accounting-standards boards stay on schedule, a new set of standards for lease accounting will be in place by mid 2011. The impact on corporate real estate will be BIG. And it will be SOON.

2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis

Investors wondering where the rest of the 21st century will take the financial and political world won't have to wait long for the biggest clue, Nicholas Boyle, professor of German literary and intellectual history at Cambridge and author of "2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis " told CNBC on Friday. 2014 will likely …

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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates People

MIT study on motivation yields some surprising results on motivation:

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