Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Finding ‘What Works’ with Solution-Focused Consulting and Training is a quick walk on a long path. The engineers had statistics, charts, specifications for all sorts of things…and I was there to facilitate the team through Innovation Models to develop a solution to this vibrating screw. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Leave the “how” to your subordinates, who must be trained and rewarded for exercising initiative, taking advantage of opportunities and problems as they arise. What follows are quotes taken from the book that will give you a flavor for what is addressed here: The Marine philosophy is to recruit for attitude and train for skills.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In addition to improving team dynamics, a company retreat can also provide your employees with valuable training and development opportunities. It can be a chance for employees to learn new skills or techniques, or to receive training on topics that are relevant to their work. Stress reduction.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 25, 2021

A business traveler was staying in the Omni Hotel in San Diego when he discovered he didn’t have any collar stays for his dress shirts. He expressed his dilemma to a hotel employee who, after suggesting several alternatives, came up with the perfect solution.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

Examples of themes are innovation, change, diversity, or playing to win. Most resorts and hotels cater to corporate meetings and can help you select the best room, meals, and activities. There could be teambuilding activities, strategy or problem solving sessions, training, and/or presentations. Find the right venue.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. million times.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 18, 2013

Sitting in a hotel lobby in Baltimore Maryland in month two of a three month partner program with Project Ascent , coaching and facilitating a team building and leadership process for managers and supervisors at McCormick Spice …. I took some time to reflect upon the day.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. It is time now to announce the second cohort.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The following season NAIB officials invited Indiana State again, and this time decided they would allow Clarence to play, provided he didn’t stay at the hotel with his teammates and wouldn’t be seen publicly with them. Once again the coach declined. He always said, “You’re as good as anybody, but you’re no better than anybody.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Innovation is not simple, but there are simple ways to get better at it. The connection between musical chairs and innovation came to me when I recently attended a two-day corporate offsite. The meeting was in an unfamiliar hotel. But innovation requires taking a fresh perspective. The teacher plays music.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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CO2

JUNE 28, 2010

Sometimes that is the company meeting room but often times it is at their desk, home office, hotel room, or even a coffee shop! Now people may participate in video conference by Soltrite meetings from the place that is most convenient for them. Check it out at Soltrite ask for Scott Colesworthy to give you a demo.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

While Uber deserves kudos for being innovative, let’s be truthful: Its success has come from creatively exploiting a regulatory loophole. When Sprint and MCI entered the market with innovative offerings, the need for regulation vanished – competition ensured good service and fair prices. Here’s how.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Her mother, Kyle Richey, and her co-founder, David Richey, are known for helping luxury service businesses — including hotel, retail, fashion, and professional sports — develop brand-defining service standards. Luxury customers, whether they’re buying automobiles, or jewelry, or hotel suites, want to feel special.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Similarly, Airbnb hosts rarely install the protections required at hotels, such as sprinklers and fire escapes. were alarmed to find that most of its sales agents are not properly licensed and trained to sell group health insurance.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

Anyway, during my travels, I've kept a running list of observations, travel tips for those of you coming to Asia for either a short trip or an extended stay, and thoughts on innovation, all gleaned from my first year based here. Join a queue at a mall or hotel or call or SMS in advance. If you go to Shanghai take the MagLev train.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. Sounded good.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

We need a new model — one that is scalable but accommodates the uniqueness of each leader's techniques; one that is stable enough to permit the training of hundreds of leaders at once but dynamic enough to incorporate and distribute new practices and other innovations in real time. But is that possible? The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Getaroom stands out because it presents a new model for hotel room booking. It features an unpublished rate program which gives consumers typically 10 to 20% (but up to 70%) off standard rates at thousands of partner hotels who want to move room inventory. Will customers be able to identify and discuss your competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

These two changes alone allow a lone innovator in Austin to build a world class product in China and ship it to Berlin — and that’s a revolution for someone with a good idea. How we train our students for this world will be critical to securing their future employment. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Fortunately, American companies have part of the solution for the skills gap right at hand — if they reverse the long-term trend of paring back training. Innovations make it easier to find high-performing people quickly and more cheaply than traditional practices. Go digital with training. An Accenture survey of 1,088 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

We need a new model — one that is scalable but accommodates the uniqueness of each leader's techniques; one that is stable enough to permit the training of hundreds of leaders at once but dynamic enough to incorporate and distribute new practices and other innovations in real time. But is that possible? The answer is yes.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The second is finding people who have the training, knowledge and expertise to work with Big Data. If you look at travel, it's an equally large data set — and I'm not talking about flights and hotels, because no one travels for the flight and hotel. One is scalability. You can't do Big Data on your laptop.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The second is finding people who have the training, knowledge and expertise to work with Big Data. If you look at travel, it's an equally large data set — and I'm not talking about flights and hotels, because no one travels for the flight and hotel. One is scalability. You can't do Big Data on your laptop.

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Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Maybe not, at least according to a wave of media coverage pointing to a dizzying array of service innovations on the horizon. But as innovation progresses, functional limitations are bound to fall by the wayside. Based on what we know so far, successful innovations are likely to: 1. Some will do better than others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

This process was often complicated by the fact that patients did not always get sufficient training on the injection procedure from their doctor or nurse. We looked at the traumatic and life-changing first stage: getting the diagnosis. This was followed by starting to use the drug. That’s understandable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The Apple TV will be a portal to worlds now accessible only by planes, trains and automobiles. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. The real damage comes to airlines and hotel chains, the former never robust at the best of times. million people who now work in the industry. [

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Harvard Business Review

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. C-DOT had two floors of a five-star hotel as their workspace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

This experience increasingly clashes with what city residents have been trained to expect from the likes of Zillow, Kayak, and Yelp. Thus we have a world in which citizens find it easier to compare pubs than public schools, to compare hotels than hospitals. The ones who are really innovating aim bigger. Innovation in Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

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. It must experiment and innovate. Too often, these whirlwind treks leave us numb. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Say you introduce an innovative new customer-relationship-management (CRM) tool for your sales force, and revenue increases by 15%. In one project , the group looked for ways to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels, an environmentally friendly practice that could also save Disney money. The change is a success, right?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Especially if we are as innovative about engaging the assets of this population as we have been historically at finding ways to write them off.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

As a frequent traveler, you'd think my credit cards would be accustomed to booking planes, trains, and hotel rooms. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate (HBR.org). Automated Calls, Fraud and the Banks: A Mismatch Made in Hell (The Guardian). BONUS BITS: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns. Are You Breaking the Law?

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