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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

When it works, it’s wonderful but the operative word is when it works. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. It breaks down at least twice a month and the scanning feature is hit or miss.

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Riverside Auto Group: A Roadmap to Improved Customer Service, Employee Engagement and Increased Profits

Chart Your Course

Riverside Auto Group, a second-generation company owned equally by three brothers, operates seven dealerships employing 190 people throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Marquette, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain) and Wisconsin (Marinette). Customer complaints are down from one a week to one a quarter. And read on… there are even more!

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Book Review: Culture Connection

LDRLB

For example, Four Seasons Hotels puts candidates through five separate interviews. While the companies Parker studies are mostly Canadian, almost all of them operate globally. Tim Vanderpyl is a Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP) with Canada’s largest catholic healthcare organization. New York: McGraw Hill.

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Resilience and the PanAm Flight 73 Hijacking - by Nathan Magnuson

Nathan Magnuson

A couple summers ago I had the incredible opportunity to attend a one week Dynamics of International Terrorism course with the Air Force Special Operations. Human Resources (4). I’m still not sure how I had the good fortune to attend. Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar. Categories. Communication (5). Core Values (2). Courage (1).

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  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.  Why?  Why?

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Keith Ferrazzi – #1 bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Whose Got Your Back, expert in strategic consulting and training to increase sales and performance, formerly CMO Starwood Hotels and Deloitte. Human Resources & Leadership Development Professionals—Cohort 1. top-level internal coaching to executives.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.