Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa May 2014 | Page 58

TRENDS

BY SCOTT PICKEN

Creating networks
Partnerships are the currency of the 21st century

M

ichael Drew, the author of the best selling
book, Pendulum, discuss how societ y
changes every 40 years in cycles. 1970 was
the last threshold point with the change from flower
power into the individualism and the personal drive
of the baby boomers.
However from 2010, we have steadfastly entered the
age of working together, collaboration, social media,
sustainability and basically the need to partner.
Hennie Bezuidenhoudt, Chairmperson of Wealth
Migrate, just attended MIPIM, the biggest property
event globally, where over 80 000 of the world’s top
property people congregate to do deals, partner and

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learn the most important property trends around the
world. His synopsis was simple and he will be sharing
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