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Thoughts and Musings from the Hughes Marino Team
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Hughes Marino President & COO Shay Hughes Named For All Leader at 2020 Great Place to Work® For All Summit
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Earlier this week, Great Place to Work announced its 3rd annual Great Place to Work® For All™ Leadership Awards during their For All 2020 Summit in San Francisco. We are proud to announce that Hughes Marino President & COO Shay Hughes was recognized as a top For All Leader among companies on Fortune’s impressive annual…
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Expressing gratitude is a simple yet powerful habit we should all practice more often. This year at Hughes Marino, we’ve made it a ritual to start each team meeting by passing out a Post-it note with these words at the top: “One thing I’m grateful for today.” We each take a minute to write down one thought and then share…
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On a Sunday afternoon in early 2016 I sat down to watch The Pro Bowl—the NFL’s version of an all-star game. For those of you who follow professional football, you know that the game can be a little underwhelming to say the least, so my attention was split between the game and answering emails. While my focus began to switch…
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This past Monday morning I didn’t go into work. Instead, I unzipped my tent and stepped out into unfamiliar surroundings in the upper Roaring Fork in the Popo Agie Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. It was cold and raining as I lit the WhisperLite stove to boil water to start the day.
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You’d never know by talking to Jeffrey Shepard, Senior Vice President of Hughes Marino, that he’s one of Orange County’s most successful commercial real estate brokers. There’s a reason for that. Jeff is far more interested in building relationships with others, giving back to the community, and growing as a person, than he is interested in telling you about his…
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An Iowa native, Dean Petersen moved to Southern California in 1985, and has been immersed in the California construction industry ever since. Dean has worked alongside Hughes Marino CEO Jason Hughes for years, and in early 2015 was named president of Hughes Marino’s Construction Management division.
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Words have power. Words allow us to interact, to communicate our ideas, to share our passions. What’s more, with the words that we choose we actually create our reality. Until the moment we speak we are blank slates, pure potential, and loaded with the possibility of things to come. When we speak we begin to realize that potential, and our…
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As a principal at Hughes Marino, I work as a licensed commercial real estate broker and a project team leader. We help companies to make great real estate decisions. After 26 years doing this work I am happy to report that I really love what I do. In 2012, I was asked to take on additional responsibility as Vice President…
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As the father of three children — one in college, one writing college applications and one who won’t get off the Xbox — I take a keen interest in the job market for today’s youth. Many recent articles have been written about the difficulty kids are having in securing their first good job after college, and some of these authors…