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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

He's a great leader, and I promised through this "favorite executive series" that I would use my show to offer insight into the hearts and minds of great leaders so that you can be more effective in creating marketing messages and copy that resonate with them. Why you need to create a system to be a person of your word. Lee Cockerell [link].

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Consultant Marketing Trust Factor

Jerry Fletcher

In it he describes how he conducted interviews with the staff at 76 different locations of a hotel chain. Jerry Fletcher is a sought-after International Speaker, a beBee ambassador, founder and CEO of Z-axis Marketing, Inc. Tony had the staff rate managers on six different trust factors. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Defense, then Offense

CaseInterview.com

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Sometimes, you get lucky because the market moves toward you. Other times, you have to find where the market has shifted toward. economic history. This is playing “defense.”.

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How Our Hotel Used Data to Make Our Laundry Service Glamorous

Harvard Business

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. As we were talking, we started thinking that we could really improve the hotel experience, That sort of hit us on the head and we just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

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Want more consulting clients? Here's how to find them.

Consulting Matters

In fact, that's a recipe for failure over the long-term as this approach will guarantee your market positioning as an "extra pair of hands" and "trading time for money" commodity. How do you feel if your client gives you a free overnight to stay at one of their hotels to get a flavor of their customer service experience?