Jason Womack

MAY 18, 2012

(Ok, maybe a little bit after, but I wanted to roll by the Natchez Technology Incubator one more time, just to see if anyone was in that early!) When I checked in to the hotel, I saw a periodical called, "Natchez: The Magazine" (the Spring, 2012 edition). The tree is being supported by a dynamic, chaotic and intent system.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 23, 2012

Sometimes it feels like our technology picks the toughest time to test us! I was on the Calgary leg of a road trip to Regina, Calgary, Seattle, and Anchorage a few weeks ago when my computer failed to boot up as I arrived at my hotel room that night. Frank’s goal was not to get me off the phone as soon as possible.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. Just like a technology company, we intentionally physically set up our “lab” on the opposite side of Tunis, far from the main body of government. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 Chip Conley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain has and shares how creating an "employee pyramid" helped him to save his company from failing during the challenging and uncertain times following 9/11.  Wally suggests keeping it simple and focusing on the basics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

It wasn’t long ago and, yet, in technology terms, it’s almost an eternity — ride- or hotel-sharing companies didn’t exist yet and the first generation of social media platforms were just hitting the mainstream. Consumer technology and its potential went largely ignored in the enterprise. A young U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Things like rundown hotels, lousy food in a restaurant, rude clerk in a retail store, long lines to be served, long waits on hold, not keeping up with technology, and poor management seem to be pervasive in our society. If you didn’t make your sales goals last year, can you honestly say you’re good? And it’s also FREE!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” None of the renters pay hotel or tourist taxes. What Can a Company Do?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. And they’re not all that interested in the consistency and reliability offered by the name-brand hotels their parents patronized. That’s an enormous mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. And something was wrong. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Their goal is to further their interests, improve their bottom line, engage in transactions with foreign partners, and maintain their competitive edge. The threat is equally real in foreign hotel rooms, despite the misconception that staying in a U.S. What can you do to protect yourself and your business secrets?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

We saw what it's like to have as many hotels under construction as open; to hire 20,000 associates in one year; to watch consumers use smartphones to book same-day hotel rooms. We'll meet face-to-face with hotel owners, partners, customers, and guests to build stronger relationships. Let the local team shine.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Indeed, through any one airline, customers can have access to thousands of organizations across a spectrum of businesses such as hotels, rental cars, vacation resorts, cruises, and restaurants. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Fluidity in business goals. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

While that might sound obvious, heads of sales tend to set their goals geographically while CMOs often target segments, making it difficult to have a common baseline for comparing and checking progress. Marketing then partnered with sales to reset customer acquisition goals at each micromarket, basing them on each market’s potential.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. Even when these firms rely on physical assets, like cars for Uber, they own the technology, not the physical asset. Digital native upstarts are gutting traditional industries one at a time, leveraging scalable technology and participative networks.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Consider some of the main tasks of managers: e.g., using data to evaluate problems, making better decisions than the team, monitoring team members’ performance, setting relevant goals, and providing accurate feedback. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

When an eminent authority on leadership and change such as John Kotter states that, “To cope with new technological, competitive and demographic forces, leaders in every sector have sought to fundamentally alter the way their organizations do business…Yet, according to most assessments, few of these efforts accomplish their goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

"When did you hit your goal?" They were talking about their NikeFue l goals, of course. Much has already been written about the technology and gamification of an active lifestyle that Nike delivers with this hybrid of a watch, accelerometer, online social network, and digital physical activity drill sergeant.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. Sponsored by DXC Technology. There’s great opportunity in the midst of this change, and brands that stay focused on the big picture stand to gain the most. Insight Center. Think about Airbnb.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

The goal here is obvious: create a symmetry of accountability and transparency between parties. Insurance companies increasingly use clever technologies to segment their customers. Have a reputation as being an unusually picky and quarrelsome guest at a popular hotel chain? That should make you at least a little self-conscious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Franklin quantified his progress toward achieving 13 personal goals, assigning himself a "little black spot" on days he failed to make progress on a particular goal. Managing yourself Productivity Technology Time management PDF MBWA' We navigate the external world this way. million data points in a work day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. Just like a technology company, we intentionally physically set up our “lab” on the opposite side of Tunis, far from the main body of government. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

It’s a five-day process that helps teams focus on one big goal and move from idea to prototype to customer research in that short span of time. For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?” Sprints keep you focused on what’s important.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Is there a technological fix as well? Frei: With customer feedback systems, if you get a customer who only gives one-star ratings of hotels, for instance, the system will stop penalizing the hotels for getting a bad review from that customer. So separate out the carrot and stick goals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These sleek buildings have design features found in many high-end hotels—and they are built with the express intention not just of increasing patient satisfaction but of reducing costs and improving outcomes. It’s clear that newly designed hospitals with hotel-like perks increase patient satisfaction and traffic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Finally, he said, "I am staying at the XYZ hotel and will wait here as many days as necessary to see him." At the same time, technology has the potential to take us back to Theory X. The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals. But Sam was creative and tenacious. Employers can now measure productivity to the split second.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. They also said they were looking for growth and development at work , not simply short-term goals and personal financial gain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. In a speech at the 2015 Drucker Forum, Zhang said, “Our goal is to let everyone become their own CEO.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Technology also played a big role. But they will remember discussions about terrible hotel coffee, the best restaurant in Prague, the ups and downs of the Red Sox, the latest Game of Thrones season and the sweet goodness that is Dairy Queen soft-serve. ” Leverage technology. Get out of the conference space. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

It's a straightforward process that our firm deduced from studying over a dozen major corporations — including Alcoa, Coca-Cola, Intel, InterContinental Hotels, Nestlé, and Novo Nordisk — that seem to be well along the way to building shared value enterprises at scale. Can Technology End Poverty?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

It is the same card he used to buy the plane ticket and book the hotel. Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. A traveler arrives in a foreign country and attempts to use his credit card to make a purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

A quick look in my inbox today and I have friendly emails from Yelp, Amazon, American Express, various airlines and hotels, and Groupon competitor LivingSocial (and I try hard to keep that kind of "correspondence" to a minimum). That's valuable, since there are only so many accounts that consumers will want to have.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2016

at a local hotel. Part of your goal in the Daily Huddle is to boost those energy levels. I’ve found that just being conscious of the obvious shortcomings of the technology goes a long way. Often, the quarterly retreat is a full-day or half-day event that’s held in the city you do business in, but outside of your office walls.

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