We're going to hold off on the who vs. whom debate until next time for a behind the story. Dan Smith wrote "The not-so-secret playbook of today’s top real estate team leaders," which is third on our top 5 this week, and below he describes how the story came to be. I always find value in hearing about other writers' and editors' processes, and I hope you will too. (If you haven't read the story, it's a good read!)
As I set out to write this post, I had a totally different idea of what it was going to be about. The original thought was to interview leaders from some of the top teams around the country to help identify how they were continuously bringing value to their teams, to learn their secret formulas in this world on change, innovation and tech.
As a team leader myself who constantly struggles to find ways to add value, I believed this would give the Inman community a diverse collection of ideas emulate and implement. But, one after the other, the answers I heard while doing the interviews were strikingly similar. It seemed they were sharing the same playbook, and I was struggling with how to write the piece.
It wasn’t until I was visiting and brainstorming with the uber Inman Ambassador Jim Walberg that I got a new idea. It came from something he said to me offhandedly about one of his personal experiences in recently changing the material for a presentation.
That, I’ve learned, is how many great ideas come to be -- randomly during great conversations if we only keep our ears open to hear the possibilities.
So, now the post has shifted from sharing secret formulas to showing that there are none. Adding value is a well-known playbook, and the individuals I’ve interviewed execute to near perfection.
As I set out to write this post, I had a totally different idea of what it was going to be about. The original thought was to interview leaders from some of the top teams around the country to help identify how they were continuously bringing value to their teams, to learn their secret formulas in this world on change, innovation and tech.
As a team leader myself who constantly struggles to find ways to add value, I believed this would give the Inman community a diverse collection of ideas emulate and implement. But, one after the other, the answers I heard while doing the interviews were strikingly similar. It seemed they were sharing the same playbook, and I was struggling with how to write the piece.
It wasn’t until I was visiting and brainstorming with the uber Inman Ambassador Jim Walberg that I got a new idea. It came from something he said to me offhandedly about one of his personal experiences in recently changing the material for a presentation.
That, I’ve learned, is how many great ideas come to be -- randomly during great conversations if we only keep our ears open to hear the possibilities.
So, now the post has shifted from sharing secret formulas to showing that there are none. Adding value is a well-known playbook, and the individuals I’ve interviewed execute to near perfection.