In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. The quintessential CEO has all the support systems. During his years as a consultant, on airplanes and in hotel rooms he wrote the story of his father-in-law, who piloted a Luftwaffe bomber over the Soviet Union in 1941. POW camp full of homicidal Nazis.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2020

The majority of the applicants in this job site are mostly looking for hourly or part-time roles in food service, fitness, hotel cleaning, restaurant, and other related jobs. Employers can use this website if they are seeking temporary or contract basis employees.

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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. He didn’t believe in the star system and told his players, “The star of the team is the team.&#

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jeff" owns a hotel in one of the New England states. Six months later, this consultant walked into the hotel and immediately sensed a difference in the attitudes of the people she encountered. Individuals came up to her and said that they loved coming to work now because the atmosphere at the hotel was totally different.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. 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. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

After a successful career in publishing, consulting, speaking, and business, he was approached by the board to help resurrect the institution. Similar to what we learn from physics, a system at rest stays at rest, and Qubein had to challenge the existing mindset and behavior of faculty and staff who were mired in outdated education methods.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. and The Career Playbook.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Along with the opportunity to play to an eager audience, he has to do PR interviews, spend time on airplanes and in hotels, and endure many other hassles. In a way, he ought to enjoy those times, otherwise the crappie hotel beds and endless runway delays would not be worth it. Complex systems. So what about us?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. By contrast, Tesla grew up in Europe and showed early signs of genius.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

Obviously, if you’re not running a hotel or an airport, you probably don’t employ a shoeshine guy. As many big organizations very deliberately move to more agile ways of working, leaders are finding that the controlling tendencies that helped bring them this far in their careers are less useful now.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

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. An HBR Insight Center.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Along with the opportunity to play to an eager audience, he has to do PR interviews, spend time on airplanes and in hotels, and endure many other hassles. In a way, he ought to enjoy those times, otherwise the crappie hotel beds and endless runway delays would not be worth it. Complex systems. So what about us?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

When Tex Gunning, a Dutch CEO who has made a career of leading companies out of crises of growth, took the reins of TNT, a troubled express-package delivery company centered in Europe, he spent the first six weeks not in his headquarters office, but at the front lines of the business—in the depots, on the trucks, and with customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

There's intensity: long hours, pressure, being on call when you're not at work, and up-or-out evaluation systems. Understanding what's needed in a position before you accept the role is important in any career choice. Steve (name has been changed) weighed both personal and professional sacrifices in one career decision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Razeghi's not-so-subtle dichotomy of life trajectories is a bit extreme (Tesla died destitute in a New York City hotel room; Edison became famous), there are practical recommendations for your own company and career. Despite both being brilliant inventors, only one was successful because he was in with the in crowd.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

This means that cities and companies will attract better talent if they can demonstrate that the move will contribute to the professionals’ careers, including after they leave the company. Over time, California is experiencing a brain gain over regions that restrict workers’ ability to move more freely in their career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Soon, it will be easy to know that the person who buys Colin Dexter books on Amazon is the same person who streams Inspector Lewis on Netflix, checks out the Randolph Hotel TripAdvisor, and searches for flights to Heathrow on Kayak. Furthermore, being a luddite will probably damage your career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In one study of hotel employees who did a lot of surface acting on the job (“Yes, ma’am, I’d be delighted to bring you a fluffier robe!”) This has an effect on others, too: Leaders who surface act at work are more likely to be abusive to their employees, by belittling them and invading their privacy, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In that spirit of continuous improvement I headed to one of our cable systems in Grand Junction, Colorado, to do a “ride along” with a particular cable field technician on their daily rounds as they did installations or service calls. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. OK, I want to cover our new process initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The ability to get new initiatives off the ground is also critical to your career. During one of the sessions, they read a case study about a hotel chain that trimmed labor and production costs by ceasing to launder guest sheets every day. “It was the first hotel chain to ask, is [every day] linen changing necessary?”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2016

By limiting the time, you increase your productivity, maximize efficiency, and implement a more highly profitable system of time management. at a local hotel. The day has come to elevate your meetings and your role in them, and to use meetings as a tool to take your company and your career to the next level. Consider a Retreat.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

We were at the Savoy Hotel, and the ballroom was full of all these British investment bankers, and we give our normal pitch. I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. Barksdale: That’s right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. The company had been forced to take its system down for 42 hours, notify all 10 million affected consumers, and issue a public apology. It was Fleura, calling from her hotel room in San Francisco. ” Jake asked.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We’ve recently seen this imbalance wreak havoc in the entertainment and media industries, where it’s long been understood that major players like movie producer Harvey Weinstein and former Fox News chief Roger Ailes could easily make or break women’s careers. Beginning in the 1970s, when U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Vera had led the subsequent charge to strengthen the internal audit system. The two men went way back.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

After a senior law enforcement official chased me around a hotel room while we both served on a statewide board for community colleges, I left the education field. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it. And we all pay the price.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Every day, many of us eat at restaurants, stay at hotels, receive packages, and use our digital devices with the assumption that the company we pay for these services — Hilton, Amazon, Apple, etc. — also employs the people who deliver them. Related Video. The Other Kind of Inequality, Explained.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2016

First off, he is keen to point out (at every possible opportunity) that he is a businessman, as opposed to a career politician. Clinton: At the heart of Hillary Clinton’s brand is her varied and deep experience in government — and her proven ability to get things done in a political system that makes this challenging at best.

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