RE/MAX was founded over thirty years ago in Denver Colorado based upon a revolutionary idea for a new system of selling real estate. Since then, RE/MAX has experienced over 380 straight months of explosive growth. This book will serve as a comprehensive picture of an amazing company, its colorful chairman Dave Liniger, and offer valuable business lessons from its everybody wins core business principal. The authors examine RE/MAXs strategy, culture and leadership from an insiders vantage point. Over a three-year period, Harkins led a research team that studied RE/MAX closely. They checked financial reports, observed critical meetings, attended conventions, dug through historical archives and conducted extensive interviews with more than fifty key RE/MAX leaders.
Book Details:
- Author: Phil Harkins
- ISBN: 9780470315545
- Year Published: 2005
- Pages: 304
- BISAC: BUS054000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Real Estate / General
About the Book and Topic:
RE/MAX was founded over thirty years ago in Denver Colorado based upon a revolutionary idea for a new system of selling real estate. Since then, RE/MAX has experienced over 380 straight months of explosive growth. This book will serve as a comprehensive picture of an amazing company, its colorful chairman Dave Liniger, and offer valuable business lessons from its everybody wins core business principal. The authors examine RE/MAXs strategy, culture and leadership from an insiders vantage point. Over a three-year period, Harkins led a research team that studied RE/MAX closely. They checked financial reports, observed critical meetings, attended conventions, dug through historical archives and conducted extensive interviews with more than fifty key RE/MAX leaders.
Beginning as a start-up company over thirty years ago in Denver, RE/MAX is now among the largest and most successful real estate companies in the world. Of the five gigantic global players, RE/MAX is the only real estate company that is still privately held. It has over 92,000 agents in fifty different countries driving more sales volume than any other real estate company in the world. RE/MAX is also well known for its fleet of 90 balloons, the largest balloon fleet in the world. The fleet continues to grow and is a source of the companys promotion. RE/MAX is also involved with community support and is involved with the Breast Cancer Survivor Recognition Program, the Childrens Miracle Network and The Wildlife Experience, among others.
PAPERBACK OF BESTSELLER: The cloth edition was a Wall St. Journal bestseller. FULL SUPPORT: CEO Dave Liniger wrote the foreword and speaks extensively. RE/MAX is the world’s largest real estate company and operates in 50 countries. AUTHORS GIVEN FULL SUPPORT OF RE/MAX ON THE PROJECT: RE/MAX allowed the authors full access to company information and personnel to allow for an accurate and insiders account of the company and its inner workings.
About the Author
Phil Harkins is CEO of Linkage, Inc., a consulting company that has worked with Dave Liniger of RE/MAX. In his own consulting and executive coaching work, Phil focuses on senior leaders and leadership teams at the top. His clients include senior executives and teams at prudential, Kraft, Ralston Purina, Morgan Stanley, American Express and numerous other Fortune 500 companies worldwide. He has written several books, including Powerful Conversations: How High-Impact Leaders Communicate (McGraw-Hill, 1999). He has also authored over twenty articles for magazines and journals. Harkins speaks frequently on these topics at public and in-house conferences, seminars, and programs around the globe. Keith Hollihan has co-authored 6 full-length non-fiction business / leadership books, including the Wall Street Journal highly recommended selection, Beating The Business Cycle by Lakshman Achuthan & Anirvan Banerji (Crown / Doubleday 2004). He has also written dozens of articles for a wide range of leadership experts including such notable figures as C.K. Prahalad, David Gergen, Ken Blanchard, Noel Tichy, Marshall Goldsmith Michael Hammer and Sally Helgesen. He is an editor of the forthcoming Leadership Lessons: 50 Top Coaches Reveal Their Secrets (Jossey-Bass, December 2004) and Enlightened Power: Women Changing the Path to Leadership (Jossey-Bass, February 2005).