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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Globalization and increased connectivity have enabled easy access to talented professionals around the world.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

I really handled every aspect of the human resources spectrum, including job analysis, selection, training and development, talent management, rewards and benefits structures, compliance, and termination. What a funny place to find wisdom — a hotel lobby shop! Sharyl sent me a photo before she purchased one of the decks.

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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

You can use the following questions in a one-to-one meeting or as an anonymous pulse survey with a team. And after picking up our rental car at the airport, we realized we didn’t have the address to our hotel. Organizational Talent Consulting. A great way to gain perspective into psychological safety is by getting curious.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

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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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. 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. This has to be done as a group.

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3 Steps To Building A Stand Out Portfolio With Emma Sharley: Podcast #25

Consulting Success

Very talented people I worked alongside, a lot of mutual respect. It did take a little bit of adjusting because I’m used to sitting in all the meetings and all the presentations. In the beginning, I would schedule my week so that I was constantly delivering work every single hour assigned to getting something out, meeting a deadline.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

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