ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Seasoned commercial realestate professionals and Millennials,while seemingly disparate groups, can learn a lot from each other.In Part 2 of a two-part analysis (clickhere for Part 1), GlobeSt.com gets perspectives fromdifferent executives on how young professionals and seasonedindustry veterans can learn from each other. Here, we speak withErin Curry, HR director forXceligent; Robert Sevim,executive managing director of Savills Studley;Alexandra S. Glickman, area vice chairman andmanaging director-practice leader of Arthur J. Gallagher& Co.; and Jana Turner, principalwith RETS Associates.

GlobeSt.com: How does the “old guard” ofprofessionals mesh with the “new guard”? What can each learn fromthe other?

Curry: The old guard is definitelygetting a dose of tech savviness. There's resistance to it reallyon both sides. The old guard is saying, “If you put the time in andhave the patience …” and the new guard is saying, “But what aboutnow? We're ready now.” There's healthy tension there. As we'remeshing, this is a transition in the way we're doing business. Ifyou have healthy tension, you can be productive and move forward.It's an interesting dynamic, this stress between the two.

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Carrie Rossenfeld

Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.