P+P: What keeps you up at night?
BL: I used to have zero doubt about the ability of this industry to provide enough for me to have a well-balanced, financially stable life, and to create enough of a yearly surplus to help me prepare for the future (e.g., kids' college tuition, weddings, retirement). Over the last five years, a "good year" is one where you have flat growth, or you didn't lose money, or you had single digit growth. The widespread financial instability has led to lower expectations, more sacrifices and making justifications so we can sleep at night—in other words, "I'm OK, at least it's not as bad as (fill in the blank)." The late-night conversations in my head center around changing that paradigm. I am constantly challenging the relevancy of my work to my clients, as well as continuing to build upon the mission of SAAC as a leading regional association to the industry.
- People:
- Bob Levitt
- Elise Hacking Carr
- Places:
- California
- Encino
- Long Beach