Review
This is a no nonsense, hands-on, step-by-step guidebook to maximizing human talent; a fresh look at how to inspire a team and achieve optimal performance. --Alan Anderson, CEO, Mountain Wireless
In preparation to really expand our company, we re planning to use The Three Pillars as a guidebook/textbook in order to do it right from the beginning. --Jeff Sinatra, Principal, Actium
About the Author
Walter Hall built three successful businesses from scratch, the first serving a local market, the second national, and the third global. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1957 he served as an officer in the United States Air Force in Europe. Upon discharge in 1960, with virtually no capital, he founded Walter Hall, Realtors and by 1968 built it into one of the largest, most diversified and innovative real estate firms in the country. In the process the company became well known throughout the industry. His innovative marketing approaches and training concepts attracted interested real estate practitioners from all fifty states who showed great interest in adopting his training programs. As a result, his real estate firm s training division was spun off in 1968 and became The Hall Institute of Real Estate, which quickly emerged as the premier real estate training organization in the nation, often referred to as The Harvard Business School of Real Estate within the industry. Although The Hall Institute started as an organization primarily focused on real estate agent training, Mr. Hall quickly saw the real need was management development training, which was then totally absent in the industry. This started his lifelong quest for researching the best in management principles and then applying them to real-world practice. Because Mr. Hall saw an opportunity to apply his firm s knowledge of real estate and managerial principles to the emerging field of employee relocation, in 1978 The Hall Institute evolved into Relocation Resources International (RRI), which, over the next twenty-five years, became the largest and most successful privately owned global relocation service firm in the industry, competing head-to-head with well capitalized industry giants such as Prudential Relocation, Cendant Mobility, and GMAC Relocation. When RRI was incorporated in 1978, it had negative capital but stayed privately owned throughout its life. When it was so