Note: I am just back from a very full week at IFMA's World Workplace 2013, in Philadelphia., where I reconnected with lots of long-time friends and made many new ones. Look for a series of reports and reflections over the next several days/weeks.
We were particularly pleased to spend time at World Workplace with Steven Sonsino, the co-author (with Jacqueline Moore) of Leadership FM, a new book calling for completely rethinking the role of facilities and facilities management (FM) in organizations (by the way, Steven's view is very similar to my own, as reported in 2012 in the RICS white paper, "Raising the Bar: Enhancing the Strategic Role of FM" - free registration required to download the report).
Steven interviewed several of us during the conference and produced this short video compilation featuring yours truly, Kate Lister of Global Workplace Analytics, Chris Hood of CBRE, Ross Liebowitz of Manhattan Software, Erik Jaspers of Planon Software, and Gaylene Domer of National Equity Fund:
By the way, those red berets signify the wearers as proud member of the Workplace Evolutionaries community, launched this year out of the Corporate Real Estate Council of IFMA (full disclosure: I am the current President of CREC, and the owner of a red beret - I just took mine off for the interview).
So - what do you think of the comments from these workplace gurus? Do you agree with them? Have your employees left your buildings? Does your C-Suite understand just how strategic your workplace is?
Any and all comments welcome.
