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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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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

Rita High School, where I learned to develop group and individualized training toward specific goals — namely, competing in band competitions or performing in concerts. L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

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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How RPA, NLP and ML will create the virtual workforce of tomorrow

Tom Spencer

RPA, which stands for ‘ robotic process automation ’, is a technology that consists of software robots ( bots ) that can mimic a human worker performing operations on their laptops. It is ideal for operations that involve rule based repetitive tasks to be done in large volumes. What is NLP? Image: Pexels.

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

MishTalk

Ghost cities, ghost malls, and empty train stations in China have been in the news for years. 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.

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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. Mindfulness: Mindfulness-based stress-reduction meditation training has been shown to have a positive outcome in overcoming the fear of failure. Organizational Talent Consulting.

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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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