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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

Want a common sense, down-to-earth approach for developing leaders, growing organizations, and creating a profitable consulting or coaching business? Today I'm talking with Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice President of Operations for Walt Disney resort and currently a consultant, author, and speaker. Lee Cockerell [link].

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Building a successful platform business

Tom Spencer

It is cliché to talk of Airbnb as the hotel company with no properties, or Uber as the taxi company with no cars. Services can help a platform operator differentiate their marketplace from competitors, and also lock in users. Attract enough users to ‘pay off’ the cost of developing and launching the feature. One step at a time?

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The Importance of Hospitable Leadership in Hospitality

People Business Psychology

Having worked in the luxury-segment hotel industry, I subscribe to the idea that leaders have a strong influence of how, and how well, the workforce operates – especially in the hotel industry. Employees need to feel valued, they need to feel they have opportunities for growth and development. In any business.

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Another Ghost Town in China, This Time a Replica of Manhattan

MishTalk

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Why your company is not innovative - 4 ways to fix it

Asamby Consulting

Innovative businesses are able to keep their operations and products relevant to the rapid changing market conditions. Product Innovation Product innovation is the development and launch of a new product or improved versions of existing products. Ricky Maurer developed three levels of resistance in 2010.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

“Sell higher and call on the C-Suite” is probably the most common refrain in business development, and you can see why. As Tom Magnuson, a CEO of a top-10 global hotel chain, told us: “I get hit on a lot by vendors and hardly ever buy.” What are you doing to develop this ability? ” Contact.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. I like adopting the paradigm of experimentation.

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