Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

For example, a multinational corporation might ensure accountability by appointing independent directors, conducting regular audits, and implementing a comprehensive risk management system. For example, project management platforms like Trello and Asana can allow teams to create virtual boards, assign tasks, and track progress in real-time.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

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. Other times, we would be doing due diligence on a data center, and that would be a much more slimmed down team, probably one or two analysts and a manager.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 14, 2018

I was recently asked to make a pitch to an executive team @ a Dublin hotel. They wanted a quick recap on what the ‘Best’ Managers do. If you were on trial for being a great manager – based on the following checklist, would there be enought evidence to convict you? Managing is an unselfish task. walk abouts).

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IMC USA

MARCH 15, 2017

The conference dates are October 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel. The JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead is just blocks away from great shopping at Lenox Mall, Phipps Plaza and the Lenox MARTA train station. Connect, Learn, Grow at IMC USA Conference 2017! Networking. Our 2017 Conference Venue.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While we all want to find a level of meaning and purpose in our work, often, some fraction of our time has to be spent doing tasks that have no intrinsic meaning and serve no deeper purpose than helping to keep the workplace trains running. Morning email needs to be answered by 10am. Calls need to be returned within one hour.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. Key suppliers should have to meet performance and training standards and then should be regularly assessed to ensure that they are meeting them. Hold supply managers accountable.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

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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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

” It’s a big hotel. It’s reasonable to assume that the hotel decided to save some money by consolidating all of their front desk work into one central location. It’s reasonable to assume that the hotel decided to save some money by consolidating all of their front desk work into one central location.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Mindfulness: Mindfulness-based stress-reduction meditation training has been shown to have a positive outcome in overcoming the fear of failure. European Conference on Knowledge Management, 833. Creativity and Innovation Management, 21 (3), 304-314. The importance of play in overcoming fears of entrepreneurial failure.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 30, 2022

President Obama speaking of Medal of Honor recipient Captain Groberg said, "on his very worst day, he managed to summon his very best. He showed his guts, he showed his training; how he would put it all on the line for his teammates.". The effect of self-sacrifice leadership on social capital and job performance in hotels.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Consider a memo that was left outside my door at a hotel recently. The management distributed 1000 of them and perhaps ten people read it and took action. We ignore it because we’ve been trained to ignore it. Here’s what to keep in mind: Pattern interrupt. Write a story. You seek engagement. Talk about me.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

So here they are: The top 10 management consulting firms in the very global, very dynamic, always-changing District of Columbia! The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Once RPA software has been trained to capture and interpret the actions of specific processes in existing software applications, it can then manipulate data, trigger responses, initiate new actions and communicate with other systems autonomously. NLP is the ability to train computers to understand written text and human speech.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

All of the 500+ BCGers in New York will be moving to the spacious office location; a birdie told us that the consultants at the New York office helped design the office space for the new location because their current Managing Partner said “People should be the author of their own space” – classic BCG creativity at work. .

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NeoAcademic

MARCH 11, 2020

The administrative office (affectionately referred to as “the AO”) is roughly a dozen people that keep the lights on and manage all of the technical aspects of running a many-thousands-person large non-profit organization. Conference hotel contracts typically require the organization booking them to guarantee 75% of rooms.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Today, I’m going to use the lens of my upcoming teaching on brand management to share some tips to grow a brand after the World Cup capturing so many people’s attention. Train customers to wait for a better deal. Maybe this will catch on as a way to get people back into the cities, hotels, and other locations. Kill profits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

A Journal of Brand Management paper shows that four in 10 employees struggle to describe their organization’s brand or how they think customers feel their organization is different from competitors. This kind of engagement is missing at most organizations.

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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. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. And something was wrong. Our fine dining restaurant was on the brink of losing its hard-won Michelin rating. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

One founder (who has chosen to remain anonymous) recently described this problem to us: “I had brought in a half-dozen managers to help professionalize my company, but after a while I couldn’t even understand what was being discussed at our management meetings. Then our head of supply chain would do the same.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. Work with a scent branding strategist and a perfumer trained in ambient aroma development to create your signature scent. Put these thoughts into a cohesive brand statement that can guide you through the next steps.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

Oh, and they will pick you up at the airport for free, take you on a tour of Zappos and then back to your hotel. When they needed to staff up a service center, he went about it in a whole new way: no JDs, no interviewing, no hiring managers. Consulting Training and Education' Nicely done marketing! By: Jennifer LeBlanc.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

One stumbling block is that company policies and benefits aren’t clear — either to employees or their managers. “I came across Milk Stork, a milk shipment service, and took it to my manager. ” In the end, her manager shared that the firm already offered Milk Stork. Ask, Advocate, and Organize.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

I started a boutique hotel company when I was 26 and, after 24 years as CEO, sold it at the bottom of the Great Recession, not knowing what was next. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. Management theorist Peter Drucker was famously curious. That’s when Airbnb came calling.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 30, 2020

This common-sense (and empirically-supported) insight means that getting the economy back on track is highly dependent on getting the COVID-19 pandemic under control (or, more realistically, to a manageable level). Any sensible economic recovery plan must be based in part on a plan to manage the pandemic. The root cause is clear.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each time a traveling executive opens spymail, they reveal a wealth of private information — their current location, the time of day they read their email, the hotel at which they are staying. Here’s how: Train for awareness. No IT manager will successfully unchain the C-suite from their inboxes, even when on vacation.

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Management Consulted

JULY 31, 2016

And while I love all that my training as a consultant gave me, please don’t fall into the trap that says “thinking like a consultant” is the best way to approach every area of your life. The post Thinking Like a Consultant: Paralysis by Analysis appeared first on Management Consulted. Courage first, scenarios later.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The guidance from the State Council, China’s cabinet, calls for a shake-up of SOEs with share sales and management changes planned to reduce losses and improve efficiency, reported Xinhua, the official news agency, on Sunday. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan The Wall Street Journal reports RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab. But here we are. Robot Taxi Inc.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

Meanwhile, the laggards continue to spend their time and money on assets that do not scale so easily — physical goods (such as manufacturing plants or inventory) and human capital (such as highly trained employees that deliver services). These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Whether you are a management consultant, sales consultant, or design consultant, reading these blogs (and most importantly, taking action on their advice) will help you improve your consulting business. It’s focused on management consulting, but many of the posts are great reads for consultants in any industry.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural adventure. Managing Across Cultures. Too often, these whirlwind treks leave us numb. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Down the road in Santa Clara, California, room service robots are being designed that can navigate a hotel’s floor plan and interact digitally with its elevator and phone systems to deliver towels and beverages to guests. Applying this simple heuristic will help managers avoid a broad array of common-sense technological transgressions.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Age is not that crucial to a good manager when determining how to treat employees. For example, Joe is a Service Manager for a large international company. Joe pulled long hours, did double duty as manager, and filled in when he was short of employees. In on other example, Martha manages a call center for a large hotel chain.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

For sure, hotel prices in Switzerland rose as much as 40% overnight compared to prices elsewhere. like restaurants, travel and hotels. They are even booking extra trains to Germany to do so. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

In one set of studies, currently in working paper format, we found that minority customers — blacks and Asians — regularly receive worse customer service than whites in ways that are not immediately obvious to onlookers (or even managers). Specifically, we audited 6,000 hotels in the U.S.

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