Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

His call sign, CHAOS , was given to him by his operations officer, John Toolan.” Developing a culture of operating from commander’s intent demanded a higher level of unit discipline and self-discipline than issuing voluminous, detailed instructions. Commander’s intent provides a framework that everyone can operate from.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

And, my wife and I were looking forward to a romantic nightcap in our La Quinta Inn hotel room within walking distance of the restaurant. After all, this was a limited service hotel, not a fancy full-service Ritz-Carlton. My wife quickly chided, “She was also taking care of this hotel. We were stunned!

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 25, 2021

The authors highlight that low-skilled workers not only operate in roles that are more vulnerable to automation, but they’re also less likely to have the skills to make transferring to any new jobs that emerge particularly easy. “Without proper action, automation could cause further deep distress, ” they say.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Whether you are a potential new business owner or someone who has been in the game for years, you knew how your industry operated before, and you at least had an idea of how to navigate within that system. Some of the most successful companies don’t just change how they operate within an industry but switch industries altogether.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 2, 2013

At the Millennium Hotel – Buffalo NY. Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation :: 1:30-2:30pm. Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Outcomes from Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation. At the Millennium Hotel. October 16 Quality Seminars. Registration [link].

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 9, 2023

These rising costs prove particularly problematic for the tradable sector because these businesses must compete with those operating elsewhere, in lower-cost places,” the researchers explain. This category encompasses many waiters, hotel staff, and fast-food workers.

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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. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. ’ Game.

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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. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc. Kevin Koch – President and CEO of Koch, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

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. When I walked out of the hotel the first plane had just hit and smoke was coming from the tower. What followed the remainder of the day on 9/11 was a combination of heroic and eerie. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Digital transformation of healthcare. Unnecessary hurdles.

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CO2

JUNE 28, 2010

These room systems have been somewhat complex to operate and typically require expensive dedicated networks or quality of service enhanced bandwidth. Sometimes that is the company meeting room but often times it is at their desk, home office, hotel room, or even a coffee shop! Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Uber doesn’t.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 16, 2020

Rather, you will be serving business clients, including hospitals, hotels, salons, and restaurants, among others. Provide Innovative Service. To do this, you need to embrace innovation. Industrial laundry businesses need to operate their business while minimizing impacts on the environment.

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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. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. Once again the coach declined.

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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 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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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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?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health.

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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. So how might a hotel operator respond to the rise of Airbnb? Uber reliably provides cheaper and more convenient rides.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Prior to the age of instant communications, intelligence operatives usually targeted international travelers who were known diplomats, military personnel or government contractors — essentially, those individuals most likely to carry sensitive information. In the parlance of intelligence operatives, this activity is called elicitation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. That’s an enormous mistake. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. This represents a truly disruptive management and operating model. Software is an almost-pure form of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. In some cities, for example, sharing economy services have been banned under laws that prohibit unlicensed hotels, taxicabs, and other professional services. million in hotel taxes or registered as businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

On the phone recently, trying to extend a pre-existing reservation with a hotel and an online travel service in advance of the Coachella music festival: xxxxx.Com: "We don't show that room available. Hotel Agent: "We have the room, but I can't extend that reservation. Hotel Agent: "Oh. You'll have to call xxxxx.Com.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Recently, the company booked an entire hotel in Cannes, France, and re branded it in its own name for the annual international advertising festival, and it featured President Bill Clinton at events. Don't wait to get really big to take over the hotel. Guanaes also stretches resources to make a big splash. Go for the best.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Recently, the company booked an entire hotel in Cannes, France, and re branded it in its own name for the annual international advertising festival, and it featured President Bill Clinton at events. Don't wait to get really big to take over the hotel. Guanaes also stretches resources to make a big splash. Go for the best.

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Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Currently, it seems to operate on the “invade first, ask questions later” model. Uber has helped me out of a pinch many a time when I had to make sure that dinner guests could get a ride back to their hotel and there were no cabs to be found. How should Uber go about conquering the world? As a resident of Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Disruptive innovation theory expands your view, increasing the odds that you spot important trends early. Of course, the more places you look, the more things you see. billion versus $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Afterwards, the hotel concierge furiously worked three phones to get taxi cabs to appear for the 15 people who were waiting with growing impatience. Based on our field work applying Clayton Christensen’s foundational research on disruptive innovation, we look at potential disruptors’ performance in three critical areas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

The National Labor Relations Board ruling on Tuesday that McDonald’s could be held responsible for labor conditions in its franchisees’ operations has business groups and lawyers crying foul. McDonald’s says it will appeal, contesting the determination that it exercises “significant control” over the practices of its franchisees.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. Let’s take the 1990s.

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