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Donald's View

Think Expansively

Robert's explanation of "Think Big, Think Expansion" is great and
totally on point. But let's take it one step further. Let's not just think
big, let's think expansively. To entrepreneurs, thinking expansively
includes seeing what is possible and making it happen. Entrepreneurs
see the vision and call it good sense and inevitable. The rest of the
world calls it innovation.
Recently, I read with interest about an innovation that was
attributed to me. I was surprised, because I had never thought of it
as an innovation, just a way to combine two elements that might
work well together. Years ago when I was doing the first Trump
International Hotel & Tower at 1 Central Park West, which was the
former Gulf Western Building that had run into some problems, I
decided it might be a good idea to do a condominium and hotel
together. It turned out to be an amazing success and has been
duplicated since, by me and many others.
So many times, innovation really results from common sense put
together with uncommon thinking. It's creative, but it's about
innovative assembly more than anything else.
I was reading about the young American composer, Jonathan
Dawe, who has attracted attention with his innovations. James
Levine, the famed conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, discovered
some of his work and premiered it this year. It turns out that Dawe
likes early Renaissance music, and he found a way to combine it with
fractal geometry, and he came up with something new out of
SOmething old. His ingenuity comes from a 'collision of influences,'
the same thing to which I attribute my success with the hotel and
tower concept I decided to try. It may seem like a stretch to compare
classical composition with real estate development, but if you spend

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