New Partnership Announcement – EstateSpace Asset Management Made Simple

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Know your wealth. Maintain your wealth. Pass on your wealth. Garde Robe is thrilled to announce our partnership with EstateSpace, the world’s only mobile asset management solution providing a single point of record for your family’s physical assets. This intelligent financial management solution enables and simplifies how families manage valuable physical assets to increase and protect generational wealth and provides wealth managers, insurers and legacy planners with a true digital representation of their client’s physical wealth-from houses, boats, cars, jewelry and wardrobe collections. EstateSpace offers multiple levels of subscription designed to grow with you and support dynastic wealth. Membership includes asset inventory management, asset valuations and global operational management for any scale. As part of the membership, clients can benefit from real-time concierge and white-glove services including Garde Robe’s wardrobe management all in an effort to help you build,…

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Organizational Change Management is Not Easy: 5 Tips For Success

If you read Forbes, the New York Times and the scores of articles on the web, social media, and in magazines, you will see that studies all seem to indicate that approximately 70% of organizational change management initiatives fail. “Most traditional organizations have accepted, in theory, that they must either change or die,” wrote Nitin Nohria and Michael Beer in a 2010 piece from the Harvard Business Review titled “Cracking the Code of Change states that “even Internet companies such as eBay, Amazon.com, and America Online recognize that they need to manage the changes associated with rapid entrepreneurial growth. Despite some individual successes, however, change remains difficult to pull off, and few companies manage the process as well as they would like. Most of their initiatives—installing new technology, downsizing, restructuring, or trying to change corporate culture—have had low success rates. The…

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Due Diligence: Great Ways to Complicate What’s Easy

Few things are easier than looking the other way and doing absolutely nothing. If you’re an estate manager, you don’t get that luxury. Ever. This is true with due diligence. Since you always have to do something, you’re lucky that finding what’s out there on a person of interest has never been easier. Or more difficult. [Wait, what?] Never quicker to look into, say, your pool guy… But it’s never required more time. Cheap, but expensive. So easy, yet complex. You get the idea. The nature of access to nearly all types of information has fundamentally changed in the last 20 years. Remember looking up topics in your local library’s card catalog, searching for and checking out books, and photocopying and transcribing passages you needed? Hopefully you’re too young for that. If not, don’t mention it to kids: They…

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