Be careful What you wish for.

A month ago I asked the entire Signature organization to share ideas they had to make the company better. Boy did I get an earful. Hundreds of ideas were sent to ideas@asignaturecommunity.com. Not just from employees but residents, vendors, lenders and investors. Great ideas shared to make our company better. So now what? Well, its time to execute on those ideas.

First, as promised I am giving awards to the ten best ideas. Those awards will be given on our weekly Signature Community customer service call on Wednesday. The next step is to put the ideas into categories that can be grouped together for execution. Next action is challenging the great people at Signature Community to create teams for researching these ideas over the next 30 days. These teams will be made up solely of volunteers that are willing to put in work towards seeing these projects produce results.

As many of you know I am a big follower of Google and its innovative management ideas. One employee perk that Google has been using, is to allow employees to dedicate one day a week to a pet project. Some of Google's greatest ventures have resulted from this (Gmail, google maps, google chat).

Over the next two months we are going to do the same thing at Signature Community. Once we form our teams to execute on the ideas we will set aside a day a week for each team member to work on their project. We will obviously need everyone to help with this process and it will be one giant team working towards Signature's goal of reducing expenses by 5% company wide.

I am looking forward to setting up these teams over the next few days and personally working with these teams to make Signature even greater than it is today.

Thanks everyone for sharing your ideas and we look forward to implementing each and every one as quickly as possible.

Thanks for making it happen at Signature Community.
Nick