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How Leadership Corresponds To Higher Staff Satisfaction

The Horizons Tracker

It’s long been a leadership trope that people don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers. The scale of this truism (in tourism and hospitality at least) was underlined by a recent study from the University of East Anglia (UEA). It’s perhaps a quality that’s lacking in the tourism industry.

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The Leadership Response To Coronavirus

The Horizons Tracker

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. Sadly, there is as much misinformation as accurate and reliable information at the moment, so it’s vital that your leadership is underpinned by facts rather than fear. Invest in skills.

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12 Keys To Dauntless Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Using the innovation skills honed as mountaineers, a group of Everest avalanche survivors recently set their sights on a new “mountain”—helping Nepal get back on its feet. Though Nepal has an extensive fleet of helicopters to serve the tourism industry, using helicopters to deliver aid is both expensive and inefficient.

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12 Keys To Dauntless Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Using the innovation skills honed as mountaineers, a group of Everest avalanche survivors recently set their sights on a new “mountain”—helping Nepal get back on its feet. Though Nepal has an extensive fleet of helicopters to serve the tourism industry, using helicopters to deliver aid is both expensive and inefficient.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g., No wonder we have skills shortages!

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

He picked people who he knew had the skills to do the job and particularly looked for experienced leaders who had an outside perspective without connections to the old regime. Because of this, tourism, one of the country’s biggest income generators, has plummeted leaving it in an economically weakened state. Destroy silos.

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Siena by Car - "You Idiot"

Chris Brady

As my five and six year old can only handle so manysteps taken in the name of tourism, and since their appreciation for Gothicarchitecture and the history of Tuscany’s artists hasn’t quite reached fullmaturity, conserving their travel distance is a great strategy for extendingthe potential time for touring. Things wereworking out swimmingly.

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