by Joe Stampone | Feb 27, 2015 | Asset Management, Career, Entrepreneurship
A few months back I listened to a great book called The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande which completely changed the way I work. Gawande, a surgeon by trade, provides a series of examples from medicine showing how the routine tasks of surgeons have become so...
by Joe Stampone | Feb 18, 2015 | Asset Management, Career
For the young people out there who read headlines in the WSJ, NY Times or other publications regarding massive property purchases, recapitalizations of shiny towers and so forth and find it very appealing/sexy, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I work for an...
by Joe Stampone | Feb 9, 2015 | Career
This is a re-post of a blog I published for Compstak back in September 2014. I thought it was worth sharing because I’ve had a bunch of conversations with aspiring real estate entrepreneurs who have asked me about Atlas’ approach to staffing. I’m on a week-long ski...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 31, 2015 | Career
The blog has always been a mix of personal insights and guest posts from guys I think are smart and doing interesting things. Guest posts are great because they provide a perspective that I can’t. For instance, I get a ton of career-related questions, and while I can...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 27, 2015 | Career
I talk to a lot of aspiring real estate professionals and many of them want to get into real estate private equity. In fact, two of the most highly-trafficked posts on the blog are about navigating the real estate private equity interview process (part I / part II)....