The Freedom Frameworks
Description
Design Your Dream Career -- Imagine the possibilities: a career that energizes you, gives you financial security, and allows you to live life on your own terms. The Freedom Frameworks provides the roadmap you need to turn that dream into reality. How? By optimizing your most valuable asset -- YOU. Learn how to leverage the 3 keys to success, and more than 60 frameworks used by Jack M Cohen, an iconoclast in his own right, whether running his own businesses, those belonging to others, mentoring entrepreneurs or C-suite executives. Jack delivers a timeless and proven roadmap with infinite possibilities for career success, based on his 43 years in commercial real estate capital markets, leading his own business from $200m to $35 billion in loan servicing, and as an investor with successes and failures. But this book is not for aspiring real estate professionals alone. Anyone looking for secrets to advance their careers will want to refer to this book often.
Packed with actionable strategies and real-world examples, you'll learn how to:
Nurture your dreams while facing your demons
Identify who you want to be and how to get there
Increase your self- and net-worth
Master the art and science of collaboration, time management and leading teams
Build a transition plan to your intended future
and much more.
As the economy continues to evolve, don't become obsolete. The Freedom Frameworks will help you break free from the traditional career mold and design a work life that's truly yours.
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Person
Jack Cohen is an iconoclast executive and mentor capitalist who invests intellectual and economic capital to help individuals and corporations accelerate growth. A respected management and finance professional with more than forty-three years' experience in commercial real estate, Jack worked at, and eventually led, Cohen Financial for thirty-five years, participating in a team of exceptional executives who grew the platform from producing $200 million of origination and servicing to a high?water mark of $6 billion in origination and $35 billion in servicing. He also participated in the recapitalization of the firm six times between 1998 and 2013.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Claremont Men's College (today known as Claremont McKenna College) and a bachelor of science in civil engineering and a master's degree in construction management from Stanford University.
Jack founded Darkknight Ventures, LLC, to lend guidance to C-suite leadership, entrepreneurs, and young professionals seeking to develop superior skills, advance careers, create and manage high-performance teams, grow revenue, arrange capital formation, and facilitate corporate recapitalization, scaling, and organization strategy.
His contributions to the industry have been recognized with several honors and awards including the CREFC (Commercial Real Estate Finance Council) Founder's Award in recognition of lifetime contributions to the commercial real estate securitization industry.
Jack has several professional affiliations, including association president of Chartered Realty Investor and Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Board of Governors, and the big board at the Mortgage Bankers Association. Additionally, Jack is active with the Young Presidents' Organization. He's also a popular roundtable host, forum moderator, and guest speaker.
Personally, Jack maintains an Airline Transport Pilot license and two Single Pilot type ratings for flying light jets. A fan of the iconoclast Batman and James Bond characters, Jack is also a second-degree black belt in Tomiki-style Aikido, a NAUI-certified scuba diver, an active CrossFitter, and loves rock climbing.
He is based in Aspen, Colorado, where he lives with his wife, Nancy. Jack has three sons and a daughter.
Content
Foreword
A Note from Jack
Part I Envision Your Path to Career Independence
1 Dreams vs. Demons
2 The Foundation
3 Know the Lay of Your Land
4 The Power of Economic Independence
5 Converting Asset Value into Earning Power
Part II Optimize Your Greatest Asset
6 Three Keys to Success
7 Time Management Tools
8 Growth by Association
9Relational Tools
10Collaboration Tools
11When You're in Charge
Part III Evolve into Excellence
12Invisible Ties That Hold Us Back
13Thoughts (and Actions) That Breed Excellence
14Joy on the Journey-Be Yourself
15Honest Confessions
16 Where Do You Go from Here?
The Freedom Frameworks at a Glance
Acknowledgments
About the Author
