November 1996 - A Corporate Culture

In November 1996, a small team of people were assembled to begin what was eventually to become a well known brand in the hospitality field. At that time this team consisted of several people some of whom had already know each other from years past and others that would become very close for year to come.

While the project that brought them together created a foundation for them to get to know each other for what seemed to be just another hotel renovation, it was actually the assemblage of the incubation of the members that would incubate a concept which 10 years later would change the world that we lived in to something else.

The new world and that would become would be based on the concepts that were created during that experimentation in entrepreneurship, friendship and team work. It wasn't until several years later that the relationships fostered here would result in something which defined the cross road into the 21st century.

At that time the team simply thought they were developing a product. The product was the embodiment of a great IDEA. Today, it is commonly referred to as The SPOT. It is the symbol of the collaboration that was developed as the first product of LifestYle Brokers Inc.

Several years later the community that participated in its development would be called Officehomes(tm) - A Franchise of work/live housing for Independent Professionals that helps to build community and strengthen identity.

However, how this came to fruition, is a story that developed accross the globe, in many nations, amongst peole of many different origins. It is a story of how "Thoughts become Things" and how social capital can build nations.

The relationship of the characters was established on the ancient principals which guided our ancestors and their communities more than 5000 years ago using the same principals of Trust, Loyalty, Respect and Reciprocity. From the Jordanian Desert nabatian city of Petra to the Global outcrop of New Digital Cities, from the jungles of southern Africa to the peaks of northern Canada, from a New City of 100,000 to a New City of 1,000,000, this is a story about progress.