I had an opportunity to hear Mark Ritchie, CEO of Ritchie Commercial, speak yesterday at the CCIM Silicon Valley District Meeting.
The format of the meeting was that of an interview conducted between Mark and George Pires, the District President. There were lots of questions covering a variety of subjects.
Of course, one of the questions was "how was business?' I guess I'm a little warped on this, but it was actually good to hear that the commercial real estate business has been slow for a lot of other brokers. I don;t feel so bad now.
There was also a question regarding the characteristics of a success broker. Mark said he tried to come up with the "Top 10 Characteristics of a Success Broker", but found that the characteristics varied between brokers.
However, one of the characteristics that Mark felt was extremely important was to have a "turtle shell" or the ability to let bad things that happen during a deal "roll off" your back. I like that idea and really need to develop my "shell", especially during this year.
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