Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Their experience provides a case study that holds lessons for any organization in any sector.

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Banking Rogers Leadership Tourism 246

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2023

It’s an arid climate, and you’ve got increased tourism and many donkeys fall victim to illness or car accidents. So you’re having the donkeys haul the equipment around. But Bon Air is not the most hospitable environment for donkeys. They’re also an invasive species.

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Leadership Wilde Tourism Survey 234

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 18, 2014

To be fair to the vendors, the difficult economy makes tourism a rare source of income. Question: Does your organization look to it’s past for strong leadership principles? Therefore, we must look to the government and other leaders of nations, with such high levels of corruption, to demand a change.

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Tourism Leadership Cost System 187

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2022

This impact was in large part due to the preponderance of jobs among young people being in sectors, such as retail and tourism, that were most affected by the lockdown measures. The authors highlight that one in six young people have been made redundant since the pandemic began, which has a significant impact on their wellbeing.

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Tourism Policies Retail Report 127

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

These kinds of issues are clearly linked to more long-term population changes than the kind of peaks and troughs associated with tourism, and there was a common concern that COVID would cause these trends to deepen. How does a gateway community navigate tourism, and growth writ-large, more gracefully?” ” Help to adapt.

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Tourism Transportation Education Trends 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2021

However, expanding the organization at international levels comes with myriad challenges. It demands organizations to develop strategies that are not only intelligent but also fool-proof. Most of the information about a place on the web comes from tourists, tourism experts, and foreigners.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. People need to feel safe in speaking up so they can contribute to the debate unfolding in your organization about how to tackle this crisis. Be as social as possible.

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Hamel Leadership Supply Chain Tourism 115

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Get Organized and Explore Your Options. Working in the travel or tourism industry will allow you to visit new places while being paid. Or are you simply a bit bored and could easily cheer yourself up with a short holiday? You would be paid to test their gear and write about it to boost their sales. •

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Travel Career Hotels Tourism 66

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 13, 2023

“Airline organizations, in part, maintain the feminized cabin by setting strict appearance standards that workers embody,” the researchers explain.

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Airlines Industry Diversity Resistance 119

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

The more interactions and positive experiences that your customers have with you, the more likely they are to convert from consumer into a brand advocate, and so the message of your brand will spread organically. Your business is stable. You can’t base your desire to expand your business on the fact that you have had a good quarter.

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Audience Niche Marketing How To Marketing Strategy 56

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. Non-profit organizations banning resources for programs or fund-raising. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Qatar Foundation (QF), a non-profit organization supporting Qatar’s development, works to ensure that education lends itself to practice in ways that make it inseparable from the process of diagnosis and treatment. “In less than one year, we were able to see an idea born out of a breakfast meeting come to life,” he said.

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Organization Content Education Tourism 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Because of this, tourism, one of the country’s biggest income generators, has plummeted leaving it in an economically weakened state. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Witness the rising popularity of yoga and wellness retreats (one of fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry), the slow food movement, and the spreading popularity of digital detoxes: time away from tech devices. This desire to decelerate is a major trend with implications for companies, organizations and society.

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Tourism Hotels Transportation Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the country still dangling from the fiscal cliff, charitable organizations like ours are finding that the individuals and foundations we depend on are more discerning than ever in their choices of how to spend their philanthropic capital. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Though Nepal has an extensive fleet of helicopters to serve the tourism industry, using helicopters to deliver aid is both expensive and inefficient. Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. Go climb a mountain. Question assumptions.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Though Nepal has an extensive fleet of helicopters to serve the tourism industry, using helicopters to deliver aid is both expensive and inefficient. Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. Go climb a mountain. Question assumptions.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Two organizations that work closely with high-end product companies, the Luxury Institute and Positive Luxury, produced the study (disclosure: I’m on the latter’s informal advisory board, but I had no involvement in the research). Celebrities are more invested than ever in sustainability. None of this is easy or obvious.

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Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 17, 2015

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He received his Master’s Degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD Degree at MIT, both in economics.

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Marketing Management Tourism Analysis 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 22, 2015

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He received his Master’s Degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD Degree at MIT, both in economics.

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Marketing Management Tourism Wilde 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If they simply declare that all euro-obligations of Greek domiciled organizations will be paid (and, presumably, received) in the future in drachmas at the prevailing rate, one can imagine an awful lot of broken contracts and lawsuits ensuing. The capital markets will also effectively be closed to the Greek government for some time.

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Tourism GDP Short-term Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

When organizations from different sectors, with different missions and priorities, endeavor to collaborate, how should business leaders approach partnership building? Successful cross-sector partnerships contain diverse but complementary organizations that collectively contribute to the creation of long-term value.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Rather than struggle against austerity, British Games organizers have embraced it as a driver for change. The more test events completed, the better prepared organizers will be to manage spectators' security come Games-time. Olympic organizers have made sure that London's crisis has not gone to waste.

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Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

It can improve its competitiveness by reducing costs in its traditional sectors, such as tourism, agriculture, and trade. New institutes should help to consolidate the existing web of applied research and universities, which when organized into geographic clusters, create greater efficiencies as well as research cross-fertilization.

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Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I spent a couple of days gathering data about the tourism industry and the company’s current footprint in the market, and identified strategic opportunities for them there. Rather than focus on why I’d fit into a top organization, I should have been telling them how I’d stand out.

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Tourism Career Storytelling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

was the watchword of tourism. Can we make our organizations produce the new flow of randomness, variety, and delight? Only then do we know what the day has in store for us. American travelers used to insist on full disclosure and perfect standardization. "No No surprises!" Are we ready for our Nextpedition?

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Hotels Due Diligence Tourism Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

It has tourism—beach and sun and one of the communist world’s last Jurassic political systems—but the real asset is the brains of its people. It could be an ideal location for healthcare organizations, but also for those in applied sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. It requires an act of U.S.

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Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is a big dream worthy of our attention, and Alibaba has won the world’s admiration as an exciting and viable organization. To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” It’s something that could never have happened in most other large, complex organizations.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Because of this, tourism, one of the country’s biggest income generators, has plummeted, leaving it in an economically weakened state. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

What the Eastern Ukrainian oligarchs have been able to do because they are very, very wealthy and have their own strong local organizations and contacts, is rebuild some sort of government presence really fast. And then finally, in some parts of Ukraine, tourism has been becoming more important. Why is the economy such a mess?

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Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Within a decade the organization stretched well beyond Latin America to the Middle East and Asia. But Guillermo’s struggles weren’t unique.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But is it likely that this will improve Brazil’s image and increase tourism, which is often cited as a benefit of hosting mega-events? What is more, the damage that can be caused to tourism by unrest can more than outweigh the benefits of being an attractive place with a good party atmosphere.

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Tourism Sports Long-term Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Five years ago, with intensifying competition, the Philips board split the organization into three different companies: Consumer Health, Lighting, and Healthcare. It then went on to launch “Accelerate,” a program aimed at accelerating growth by transforming each new independent company into a focused organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

"Our new service tested off the charts — more than 5% of customers we surveyed said they would buy it," one reader at a not-for-profit organization emailed me. "We Most organizations have an untapped asset walking their hallways every day. We launched it. The results were disappointing.". Remember, customers lie.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Seminar Tourism 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Internally, several parts of an organization may have to sign off on making such changes; externally, the process of finding new suppliers and contracting can be time-consuming. Companies risk running out of time to prepare for the changes that will most affect their businesses. Relying on historical data is risky too.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

.” George Stigler , another Nobel economist, identified and described the concept of regulatory capture — a sort of economics Stockholm Syndrome where regulators supposedly empowered to protect the public good end up protecting the individuals and organizations they are supposed to regulate. These phenomena are global.

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