Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23. What a funny place to find wisdom — a hotel lobby shop!

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. This also opens up the opportunity to get face time with other operating executives within ABC client. But I was never home.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

But over the last two years, as we interviewed over 60 business leaders, what we found is that this feeling never goes away. No matter how senior the person we interviewed, there was always a lingering doubt about the risks and consequences of speaking up. So we meet someone and label them as: woman or old or American or rich.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. It sounds like a line from Father Ted – but this was actually the case. Organising Meetings: It can be tricky to line up all the diaries. I know, I know. What about heat and light?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The interview was before the Fed announcement. It was a fascinating 2-hour interview. And I think that's proven to be the case. And we see that in pretty much every single case but hospitality they've been ticking ever downward. But the answer is we've got a lot of involvement in net operating loss carry forwards.

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