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Al Hartman Named a Texas Commercial Real Estate Icon by Industry Peers

Al Hartman, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Hartman Companies and the CEO of Hartman Income REIT Management, Inc. (Hartman) has been named a Texas Commercial Real Estate Icon by the...

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Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace: Why Employers Should Value EQ

Emotional intelligence in the workplace is often taken for granted in the hiring process. Unlike hard skills, few employers think to consider emotional intelligence or EQ when moving through their hiring process....

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Employee Awards: The Power of Recognition at Work

Recognition in the workplace is a tool that is often overlooked and frequently undervalued. Employee recognition should be more than an expected award given at a regularly scheduled year-end event. Companies should be...

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Al Hartman on CRE Firm’s Unique Acquisition Strategy

Hartman Income REIT sources over 600 acquisition opportunities in Texas each year. In this video, I, together with our CIO David Wheeler, discuss the firm’s unique strategy to acquiring the best opportunities in...

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Soft Skills in the Workplace: From a CEO’s Perspective

Every employee or prospective employee you have ever crossed paths with has a set of skills that can be broken down into two key categories: soft skills and hard skills. But as you hire people and build your business,...

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Investing in an Inflated Economy: Diversification through Alternative Investments

Market inflation is the decline in purchasing power of a currency over time that results in rising prices for goods and services. In other words, the value of a currency decreases in times of high inflation. Many...

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Diversity of the Texas Economy: Factors Driving Growth in the Lone Star State

The American dream is alive and well in Texas. Texas continues to represent something of an American ideal, and the recent trend of moving to Texas exemplifies that. Texas is pro-growth, which is what draws many...

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Al Hartman Interview on Top Five Trends to Watch in the Future Of Work

This interview was originally published on Authority Magazine by Phil La Duke. Hyper focus on the employee experience to keep employees long term. Companies trying to implement remote, partially remote, or in-office...

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Small Business Entrepreneurship: Business Basics

Small business entrepreneurship is the process of setting up a small business — and assuming the financial risk and enormous amount of work that comes with it — in the hope of making money. It’s often a...

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Creativity at Work: 6 Strategies from Al Hartman

Intelligence, aptitude, experience — these are all qualities business leaders typically look for as they build their teams. They are also wonderful qualities to have in the workplace, but they are missing one thing:...

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