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Leadership the AirBnb Way

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Around 2007, Simon Cooper was the CEO of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, where I was working with their senior leadership team. Simon and I were exploring how Ritz-Carlton could adapt to meet the needs of changing luxury travelers without losing the company’s legacy customer base.

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Team Building and Leadership Development Simon Graduate School of Business

Mike Cardus

I am very proud to have facilitated for the 4th year in a row University of Rochester NY Simon Graduate School of Business Executive MBA Program. To see all the Executive MBA teambuilding & leadership photos. Executives applying the Team Building & Leadership Development to ‘ Build a Tower Build a Team ’.

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Team Building and Leadership with University of Rochester Simon School Executive MBA Class

Mike Cardus

I am very proud to have facilitated the University of Rochester Simon Graduate School of Business Executive MBA Program. The team building and leadership development for the executive MBA students took place at the Woodcliff Hotel outside of Rochester NY. and had a great deal of fun. and had a great deal of fun.

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”. Simon Cooper, president and COO of Ritz-Carlton says the best reason to rid an organization of mindless hierarchy is to provide scriptless service : employees deciding on their own how to make guests happy. That’s real leadership.”

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Leading From Who You Are (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

The Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and Internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. The term character-based leadership rose out of this group’s efforts and eventually led to the book, The Character-Based Leader.

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Catalyst Atlanta 2016 Recap

Joseph Lalonde

Leadership happens with gentle application @YoDutchBros Click To Tweet. Simon Sinek : Unfortunately, I missed most of Simon Sinek’s talk as I was being introduced to the amazing musician Erskin Anavitarte. What was my takeaway from Simon Sinek? Trust and cooperation are lacking in this world.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?