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What Insights Are the Next Generation Passing On?

Interns and protégés offer fresh insight into our industry, says Lawrence P. Casey, president and COO for Donahue Schriber, in this EXCLUSIVE article.

By Natalie Dolce | nataliedolce | | Updated on July 05, 2016
Lawrence P. Casey, president and COO for Donahue Schriber. Lawrence P. Casey, president and COO for Donahue Schriber.
When recently chatting with Lawrence P. Casey , president and COO for Donahue Schriber , about the next generation of leaders and insights they are passing on, Casey tells GlobeSt.com that his firm’s executives truly get more out of the programs it participates in than they give. “Interns and protégés offer fresh insight into our industry.” An example Casey pointed to was how the firm segregates tenants in its grocery-anchored neighborhood centers between “internet resilient” and “internet vulnerable.” The young people, who grew up on their mobile devices, opened our eyes to ‘brick and mortar” retailers who may suffer from “multi/omni-channel” retailing,” he says.  “They also confirmed many of our assessments of “internet resilient” tenants like grocers and restaurants.” Casey points out that “they ask hard questions from many different perspectives about why we do things the way we do.  You find yourselves having a bit of difficulty explaining why it is exactly that we do it that way.” Casey’s executives like working with the interns in their programs because the interns also show them new ways to use programs like Word/Office/Power Point and other business applications. “The young people’s ability to research and otherwise access information is also something our employees appreciate and learn from; and many research projects build up during the year for the interns to tackle every summer.” Young people are very productive and move through assignments quickly,” Casey adds. “Some of our more experienced employees see what the younger competition for their jobs have to offer, and ‘up their game’ in response.” Successful leaders, he says, are curious, and never stop learning and evolving. “The minute you think you know it all, is the minute you become stagnant.” Be on the lookout for the June issue of Real Estate Forum for a full feature on the subject of the next generation of leaders, and what is takes to be successful.

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