Most Inspiring Leadership Books Shared By Sue Adler’s Facebook Friends

Recently I posted a question on my Facebook page asking, “Which Leadership books have had the biggest impact on you and why?” and I received many, many fantastic responses from my Realtor friends across the country, local New Jersey friends and clients, and even best selling authors.    Comments varied from Steven Ligon’s, “At the risk of sounding trite, the Bible…the best examples of servant leadership are in the Bible. There are also great examples of leadership failure,” to Alex Charfen who said, “Think and Grow Rich, Born to Run, Unlimited Power, The Fighter’s Mind, Where Have all the Leaders Gone?, Power vs. Force : some of these are not considered leadership books but they should be. They have all had a profound impact on my life and business. ”

Short Hills resident, Caroline  Updyke and others really liked The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, stating, “It’s about character and principles and it’s one of my all time faves,” and best selling author of Seven Levels of Communication, Michael Maher, agreed and added dozens more to the list, including multiple biographies. Maher suggested you can find some great inspiration from Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, and many other leaders.  After a conversation with Adam Hergenrother, I started Psycho-Cybernetics, which is absolutely a life changing book. We even got a response from Mindy Hager, Gary Keller’s executive assistant on Gary’s favorite Leadership books: Optimal Stress  byCarol J. Scott, M.D. , Practice Made Perfect  by Roberto Moretti , Margin  by Richard A. Swenson, M.D., and Mastery by George Leonard .

Check the full list  below from my facebook friends and feel free to subscribe to future posts, friend me, and/or add a comment to this post below and list YOUR  favorite leadership books, too!

• Personal Leadership
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• The Greatest Salesman in the World
• One Minute Manager
• No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs
• Servant Leadership
• Good to Great
• Leadership & Self-Deception
• How to become a person of influence
• Think and Grow Rich, Born to Run
• Unlimited Power
• The Fighter’s Mind
• Where Have all the Leaders Gone?
• Power vs. Force
• 6 Steps to 7 Figures by Pat Hiban
• The Dream Manager
• Great
• Winning
• Getting to Yes
• Think & Grow Rich
• John Maxwell books, including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
• The Travelers Gift
• Mastering The Rockefeller Habits
• Art of War, Sun Tzu
• Leadership and Self Deception
• The Prince
• Psycho-Cybernetics
• AdaptAbility
• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
• Leadership and self deception
• Lord of the Flies
• Optimal Stress
• Practice Made Perfect
• Margin
• Mastery
• 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
• Entreleadership
• The Bible

6th Annual Client Appreciation Party! Thank you to everyone, what a great night!

This past Friday I held my 6th annual Client Mix and Mingle Party at the Racquets Club in Short Hills, NJ.  I hold this every year to show my appreciation and so that my clients who have just moved to the area can meet new friends. Thanks to everyone who attended! I hope they all made some new connections in their neighborhood. I know at least one group has already made plans for a “Girls night out”.  I’m really grateful for the friends I’ve made through my business and my team and I had a great time catching up with everyone.
Additionally, we had numerous interesting doors prizes graciously donated by our local businesses, some of whom are also our clients. I’d like to publicly thank and recognize these businesses for their generosity, and it’s my pleasure to help promote them to our community.
Steve Lupton (who was one of our sponsors for this event. Thank you Steve! He’s helped many of our clients get mortgages and has been awesome!)
ISB Mortgage Co., LLC
A Subsidiary of Investors Savings Bank
249 Millburn Avenue
Millburn, NJ 07041
908-522-6500

Leah Gomberg
Sweet Life by Design Home Staging
www.sweetlifebydesign.com
leah@sweetlifebydesign.com
973.762.3100

Pam Carlson
Ready, Set, Organize!
www.ready-set-organize.compam@ready-set-organize.com
973.818.4718

The Conscious Plate
www.TheConsciousPlate.com

Chaos to Cash by Carrie Green
Carrie Thru
www.CarrieThru.com

The UPS Store
55 Union Place
Summit, NJ 07901
908.273.7000

The Wine Library
586 Morris Ave.
Springfield, NJ 07081
www.winelibrary.com
973.376.0005

Steven Hockstein
AHM Architects
www.ahmarchitects.com
973.258.0800

Thank Greg for going above and beyond and donating a Complimentary Teeth Whitening with consultation, to EVERYONE at the party!
Greg Scheier, DDS
90 Millburn Ave.
Millburn, NJ 07041
www.familyandpediatricdentistry.com
973.762.1110

Bernadette Armiento
Shining Life Nutrition
www.shininglifenutrition.com

Etya Novik
Respira Salt Wellness Center
472 Springfield Ave.
Berkeley Heights, NJ
www.respirasalt.com
908.665-0333

Susan Krien
Happenstance Creations
www.happenstancecreationsstationery.com

Tracey Stephens
Tracey Stephens Interior Design, Inc.
37 Harvard Street
Montclair, NJ 07042
973.744.8947
tracey@traceystephens.com

Amanda Gifford Cobb
Brown Dog Inc.
www.sitandstaytionery.com

Joe Gill
Deb’s Handy Husband

www.debshandyhusband.com
jgill@debshandyhusband.com
973.820.5176

Lori Cicali
Heights Insurance Agency

Naim Bulbulia, Esq
Hartmann Doherty
nbulbulia@harmanndoherty.com
973.467.1325

Video: Give Home Buyers and Sellers What They Are Looking For! Sue Adler and Kenn Renner Share Video and Website Strategies at Keller Williams National Convention

I’ve been fortunate to speak at several major real estate conventions over the years, but this time, I was lucky to have the King of Video, Kenn Renner, on stage with me because he filmed our whole panel! Read more

NJ’s Sue Adler Team Named #103 in Wall Street Journal Top 1000 List of Realtors Nationwide!

Last week, The Sue Adler Team was named #103 in the “The Thousand!”  This article is published every year by The Wall Street Journal and Real Trends, Inc. and highlights the Top 1,000 real estate teams in the United States. We are so excited to be a part of that exclusive list for 2011!  The teams are chosen based on the  amount of dollar volume   for 2010, and The Sue Adler Team is the only NJ Real Estate Team to be named on this list. Read more

InmanNext features SueAdler.com as Great Example of Consumer-Centric Real Estate Website

Now there is even more national recognition for Sueadler.com!  Chris Smith from InmanNext interviewed Jim Marks, CEO of  Virtual Results about his “websites that work” and featured my new custom New Jersey real estate site as an example.

When Jim and I discussed how this site was going to be built, we had the Midtown Direct Trainline Town home buyer and seller in mind with each and every page.  Most of our buyers move here from Manhattan, Jersey City,  Hoboken or Brooklyn.  I joke that there is usually a dragger and a dragee out of the city and aside from the house, their priorities are often great schools, direct train for easy commute, and a walkable town.

So….. We built sueadler.com for the buyer relocating to New Jersey who isn’t sure yet which town to call home. Our interactive map has commute times to NYC, links to all of the community info including town tour videos with locals discussing the community, and links to all homes for sale in Millburn, Short Hills, Summit, Chatham, Madison, Maplewood, South Orange, Livingston and surrounding New Jersey towns.

Keeping both buyers and sellers in mind, on each of my listings, we pulled in the corresponding community information. For example, on www.sueadler.com/38rollinghill, you will notice a community video of Chatham, the Chatham blog posts, and the Chatham yelp reviews, as well as Chatham school and commuting info.

What I have discovered is that home buyers go to real estate websites and may see a nice house, but they have no idea what the community is like.  We designed this site with the intention of providing the whole package. And our sellers are thrilled to have their New Jersey homes featured in this way, so it’s a win for everyone.

A huge thank you to Jim Marks and the Virtual Results Team.  And to Chris Smith for giving sueadler.com national exposure!  Click here to see the article or watch the video.

SueAdler.com Showcased As Leader in NJ Real Estate

Our team website, sueadler.com, has been spotlighted in a recent article by Diverse Solutions, a California based company dedicated to providing leading edge technology to real estate, and I wanted to share the good news with you! Click here to see the full article and find out about how our website can help you in finding a home in New Jersey. Reviewing our interactive custom map, complete with train route information, Diverse Solutions, explained that it provided a way to instantly “engage” website users who want to live in New Jersey. They also loved our choice of colors and clean design and our custom quick search which allows website visitors to quickly conduct a search for the New Jersey home that most closely matches their needs and interests. We love the fact that Diverse Solutions took the time to even evaluate our many videos which help you to preview our towns in Chatham, Millburn/Short Hills, Summit, Maplewood, South Orange, Livingston, and Madison.  Our videos are a great way to check out each town, especially if you are relocating. Be sure to tell your friends who are interested in buying or selling real estate in New Jersey, we’d love to help them settle into one of our towns, whether they prefer a home in Chatham or to live in Millburn/Short Hills.  We’re here to help!

Work in NYC? 10 Reasons why you should commute from New Jersey.

10 Reasons why you should move from Manhattan to our awesome New Jersey towns….

1. NJ Transit- Midtown Direct Train gets you into New York Penn Station in 25-50 minutes from South Orange, Maplewood, Millburn, Short Hills, Summit.  After Summit, the trainline branches off to: Chatham, Madison, Convent Station…  and the other branch heads to New Providence and Berkeley Heights….   If you click on link above, you will see parking options whether you live in one of these towns or one of the surrounding towns. Need to commute to downtown to the financial district? Just take the train to Hoboken, and then the path or ferry.

Oh, did I mention that there is valet parking at the Millburn train station, and that there is a jitney bus to get you to and from the Maplewood & South Orange train stations during morning and evening rush hours?

Great Schools

2. We have great public schools! 2010 New Jersey School Report Card

3. Our towns are absolutely charming and beautiful. They are SO not like the New Jersey stereotype. Each town has its own personality(and different sections within each town do as well), and you’ll find that living here you will frequent all of the surrounding towns for different things from shops to restaurants to theatre to fitness centers to art, piano or karate lessons. Read more

7 Tips for NJ Home Sellers BEFORE putting your Midtown Direct Home on the Market

If you are planning on selling your home in Millburn, Short Hills, Summit, Maplewood, South Orange, Chatham, Livingston, Berkeley Heights or New Providence,

here are a 7 tips to help you prepare so that you’re not scrambling last minute.

1. Construction Permits: Go to your town hall and make sure that any construction permits have been closed out. Even if you haven’t taken any out, the previous owners may have.

2. Underground oil tanks are THE hot issue these days, especially when you’re selling an older home.  If you don’t have proof that an oil tank  has been removed on your property, have a tank sweep done. (I’ve got a list of names if you need recommendations)  If you have record of a tank having been decommissioned, be aware that most local buyer’s attorneys are asking for them to come out anyway because there is an arguement that unless the tank is removed, you can’t test the soil beneath it. Now I’m not an expert, but I’m only making you aware of what will most likely come up so, you may want to be proactive and take it out ahead of time.   Buyers just don’t want the liability. Read more

Choosing a Realtor to help you with your home purchase along NJ’s Midtown Direct Train Line

Today there are a so many ways to find a home from a google search of (ex) Short Hills NJ homes for sale, to plugging in an MLS number, to searching Realtor.com, Trulia, Zillow, or the numerous  IDX searches on real estate company or agent websites, inviting you to search all New Jersey homes or search the GSMLS  ( Garden State Multiple Listing Service).

So you end up registering on various real estate search sites.  But how do you know which Realtor to work with and help you navigate through the home buying process here in NJ?

1. You want to see house when you want to see houses. Agents who are solo may say to you, “I’m not available. How bout next week?”  When you work with The Sue Adler Team, this doesn’t happen. Someone on our team will always be available to accomodate your schedule with reasonable notice. Read more

Hiring A Real Estate Lawyer in NJ: Your Advocate or Your Deal Killer?

Hiring A Real Estate Lawyer in NJ: Your advocate or Your deal killer?

In New Jersey, when a contract to purchase a home is signed, it is not binding, until it’s out of “attorney review”. What this means to a buyer is that another buyer can come along and outbid you during this period. And to sellers, it means that your neighbor’s house with the new gourmet kitchen can come on the market and lure away your buyer. This is why its in the best interest of all parties to hire competent REAL ESTATE attorneys who will protect their interests with protective clauses, and at the same time get them out of attorney review quickly.

Sounds simple, right? Well, if you follow this advice, you will be protected, and also have a much smoother transaction.

1. Hire a recommended LOCAL REAL ESTATE attorney, Notice I didn’t just say attorney. They should ONLY be practicing real estate law. A local lawyer will know what’s customary. If you’re purchasing in Short Hills, Summit, Chatham, Maplewood and other towns in our area, they will know when to add a clause in about an oil tank sweep. They’ll know which areas have had flooding issues. They’ve dealt with zoning,permits in Millburn, Summit or Maplewood town halls and are familiar with the local home inspectors and their reports. They know who to call for asbestos removal, and they know reputation of different builders, etc…. I have 4 real estate attorneys who I work with on a regular basis who really know their stuff. Email me & I’ll pass along those names. Its not a bad idea to interview a few attorneys before choosing one to see who’s style works best for you.

2. Before hiring the attorney, find out if he/she will be going on vacation any time during the next few weeks or if he/she has anything going on which will affect availability. NOT Returning phone calls & not responding to attorney review letters in a timely manner is one of my biggest pet peeves. I know that the lawyers I work with on a regular basis will NOT put my files under the pile on their desk. You need to feel confident that the attorney you choose will be available to you.

3. Inspection “Requests” or Inspection “Demands”…. Make sure you approve the attorney’s letters before they go out. I have found that when I’m trying to get through inspection issues with my buyer, sometimes the attorney “inspection demand” letters (which I would prefer to call “inspection requests”) are worded so strongly, that it immediately puts the seller’s in a defensive mode. When I bought my house in New Jersey ( after having sold real estate for many years in Philly, where we handled everything ourselves and rarely used attorneys), I used the attorney recommended by a friend, instead of one recommended by my realtor. Big mistake. She shot off letters without my approval, and when I read the harsh sounding “inspection demands” letter, I found myself calling the sellers and apologizing for the threatening tone of the letter. Afterall, didn’t our parents teach us that you catch more flies with honey?

Over the years I have categorized real estate attorneys into 4 types:

First: “My way or we kill the deal”,

Second: ” I’ll fight for whatever my client wants no matter how unreasonable the request may be, and NOT advise him. I’m my client’s puppet.”

Third: “I don’t have the time to be bothered with returning calls. I’m too busy.
Oh, closing is tomorrow? Oops, I forgot to order the mortgage payoff. ”

Fourth:” I am my client’s advocate, and at the same time, it is my job to advise my client on what is reasonable. If I can’t get anywhere with the other lawyer ( who is type 1,2 or 3), I’ll have my clients work it out through the realtors. The smoothest transactions are when we are all working together to resolve the issues in a timely manner.

Which type of attorney would you like to represent you?

Sue Adler is the #1 Keller Williams agent in New Jersey, specializing in towns with 20-50 minutes from NYC. Visit www.SueAdler.com , the ONLY real estate site you need for New Jersey real estate.