Risk & Business Magazine Hardenbergh Magazine - Fall 2019 | Page 4

CLIENT SPOTLIGHT CHANGING THE GAME: TEAM CULTURE AND THE GROWTH OF WOLF COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE (WCRE) T he real estate industry, perhaps understandably, has had a historical tendency to generate an all-for-one type mentality. Unfortunately, that isn’t the best way to do business. It leads to negativity in the workplace, faltering sales due to a lack of a team mentality, and eventually becomes a detriment to the clients that the business itself is trying to help. Business, when you get 4 right down to it, is about relationships. Relationships between employees, between clients, and between companies. Relationships are built on trust and commitment. Jason Wolf, founder of Wolf Commercial Real Estate (WCRE), has come to understand this principle very well. Even from a very young age, Jason had the entrepreneurial spirit and the hustle required to make things happen. Whether that meant carrying grocery bags for the elderly in supermarkets growing up, selling candy door to door, caddying at the local golf club, or running a marketing business during college, the spark was always there. His father, a real estate developer and entrepreneur himself, often had long conversations at the dinner table about real estate. Growing up in that environment, it became an interest for Jason. After graduating college, he got