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December 2015

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Keller Center Research Report - December 2015 (1.39 MB)
Value Creation in Real Estate
Tynan, Caroline; McKechnie, Sally; Hartley, Stephanie

For real estate professionals, the word value comes up in professional conversations everyday. However, value can oftentimes be very narrowly defined from the firm’s perspective, prompting the agent to miss opportunities to connect the broad definition of value to the real estate purchase experience...

Marketing and Sales, Customer Relations
Value-Developing Skills
Fifield, Charles

The concept of developing value for a buyer in order to gain a purchase decision should not be thought of as a static event or a single step in the selling endeavor, but rather a critical and dynamic factor or process...

Customer Relations
INSIDER: Thinking, Fast and Slow in Real Estate Sales
McMullen, Mark

Our decision-making processes utilize two systems in our minds that function very differently, yet work together to help us analyze situations and draw conclusions. Dr. Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow explores the interaction between the automatic system and the conscious system...

Financials, Marketing and Sales, Customer Relations, Insider
Can Acetaminophen Reduce the Pain of Decision-Making?
DeWall, C. Nathan; Chester, David S.; White, Dylan S.

Decision-making and loss as a result of decision-making may afflict every individual, industry, and profession. However, decision-making and loss are not the most pleasurable experiences. In fact, decisions are often described as painful...

Customer Relations
Creating High-Performance Sales Organizations through Sales Control Systems
Guenzi, Paolo; Baldauf, Artur; Panagopoulos, Nikolaos

Recent academic research shows that two types of salesperson or agent behaviors play important roles in creating successful sales organizations. The question motivating our research is: what can the people who lead sales groups do to further encourage these behaviors?

Management
Simplification: A Catalyst for Employee Engagement and Operational Excellence
Webb, Russell; Eskew, David; Moser, Lauren; Arnold, Josh; Baker, Troy

Complexity threatens organizational competitiveness. Nearly 70% of executives attribute rising costs to excessive complexity, and many firms are aggressively combating complexity...

Management
INSIDER: Agile Selling
Smith, Luke

For most people, sales agility is a new term. Top sellers are agile learners who know what it takes to dive into a new situation and figure it out quickly...

Marketing and Sales, Insider

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