Street Smarts: Beyond the Diploma

STREET SMARTS: Beyond the Diploma is the culmination of ten years of research and interviews with successful people from all works of life.

STREET SMARTS recounts the 125 life lessons that came out of these interviews in answer to:

What should college graduates know when they leave the college environment?

This book is designed for the 21st century reader: short and punchy sentences and paragraphs, concise and precise, alternating pages of visuals and text, bolding and bullet points, summaries and quotes. STREET SMARTS is the wisdom of the ages presented in an Internet-Age format.

Jim Randel, a graduate of the Columbia University College and Law School, has made his living as a real estate lawyer, developer, and entrepreneur. Randel has been a guest speaker at Harvard and NYU Business Schools, annual conventions for national organizations, and investor sessions in many large cities in the United States. Recent engagements include ABC, CBS, Fox, Fox Business and BetterTV.com. Throughout his career, Jim s passion has been to teach and write. His first book, The Real Estate Game (CCH), was published in 1986 and received national recognition from investors and critics. From 1988 to 1990 he was a daily commentator on the Financial News Network (now CNBC). In 2006 he wrote Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur (McGraw-Hill) which reached #1 in several Amazon categories.