Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

As someone who has spent their career going inside organizations that do customer service extremely well – from Nordstrom, USAA, Southwest Airlines, Zappos , L.L. An employee in great service culture such as predominates at Nordstrom or Zappos or the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company is expected to take positive, creative action on behalf of others.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Just a few hours later, I found myself staring at a McDonald's from my hotel room. The first time I read Paradigms almost 25 years ago, it led me to disrupt and then change my career. Barker believed that excellence, innovation and anticipation are the triad of the future. By now, paradigm has become a buzzword.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The short answer is intentional leadership. After a successful career in publishing, consulting, speaking, and business, he was approached by the board to help resurrect the institution. So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative? And they would use it!

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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. Wooden taught and lived out the character values he wanted his players to adopt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It wasn’t long after Michaels arrival that he was impressing his co-workers by offering $100 to a waitress at the nearby InterContinental Hotel to expose herself.   Still, it’s really easy for leaders with titles to underestimate the impact of their leadership footprint. Different people chose different options.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Harvard has responded to that challenge by pioneering the creation of an Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Or think of when you read a Tripadvisor, Amazon, or IMDB review of a hotel/product/movie: to what degree does that review convey information about the object being rated, versus the person reviewing it? Frustrated employees are often a warning sign of broader managerial and leadership issues which need to be addressed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. Designing more flexible career paths allows companies to easily deploy people to different roles where their skills are in demand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Nikola Tesla electricity throwdown, Razeghi explains that Tesla only had one key stakeholder behind him (George Westinghouse), while Edison was better connected to innovators and other VIPs (Henry Ford, Warren G. Ricks, is a profound lack of leadership among the U.S. Harding, and more). GENERAL FAILURE. By many accounts, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level.

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