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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. which translated into $250K for each hotel! Simons’ work continues at The Integrity Dividend with a book, programs, blog, and more.)

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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

According to this article from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 42-63% of established hotels probably would not have taken the rooms that AirBnB gained in the lodging business. However, the overall profitability of the hotel industry went down 3.7% AirBnB did not take market share directly from established chains.

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General Jim Mattis on Learning to Lead

Leading Blog

Written by Jim Mattis and made better with the help of Bing West, the book details the lessons Mattis learned from more than 40 years in the Marine Corps. He organizes the book in terms of the changing nature of his leadership responsibilities as he moved up the ranks. First, he learned face-to-face or direct leadership.

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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

Great Leadership By Dan

Hotels by AirBnB. You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. And you need leadership that has a longer time horizon so you can invest in relationships. Her first book, The Membership Economy was an international best seller. Taxis by Uber & Lyft.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Thus, the businesses in a city — hotels, restaurants, theatres — might affiliate to promote local tourism. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books.

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Book Review: Culture Connection

LDRLB

Marty Parker attempts to tackle this “how” question in his book, Culture Connection: How Developing a Winning Culture Will Give Your Organization a Competitive Advantage. This book is written about ten Canadian companies, who recently won the “10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures” award. New York: McGraw Hill.

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Loosening the Reins: Why It’s Important To Pass the Leadership Torch

Terry Starbucker

Stay tuned for more news and tidbits about this book project. I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. We had worked hard to get our operations in order and build a great team. The fact was, I was getting more comfortable with being more detached from the day-to-day operating decisions. It was time.

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