Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If someone you manage is complaining to you about the amount of grunt work they have, you need to figure out a way to help them get over their frustration and see that everyone on the team has grunt work they have to do, and also learn to manage their time so that they don’t short-change higher-value activities.

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Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. priorities: work, call wife, sleep, eat, in decreasing order] Project Manager irritability rising. Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Isnt it lovely!

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Management Consulted

APRIL 21, 2019

Consulting is known for its business travel – so much, in fact, that it’s hard to describe your work in the industry without mentioning the constant flights and hotel nights. The post 5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant appeared first on Management Consulted.

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IMC USA

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Successful Management Consultants from around the Globe to Gather in Orlando, FL. The Conference for Successful Management Consultants. WASHINGTON, DC – The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA), announced that it will host Grow! About the Institute of Management Consultants USA. 202.367.1261. gail@imcusa.org.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For instance, a global hotel chain successfully improved onboarding by incorporating service-based scenarios into their custom eLearning solutions, which helped new hires quickly adapt to the companys culture and develop professional skills.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Sanction Madness Escalates: Italy Seizes Hotel of Putin Ally Two days ago sanction madness hit a new extreme: Italy seizes Putin ally Arkady Rotenberg’s property assets. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lee is not just a great leader; he also turned his leadership success into a highly profitable leadership and management training business, so he's got some best practices on how he stands out in the market and wins clients. In this episode, you'll hear: How Lee evolved as a leader by shedding defensiveness and operating in trust.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2019

It used to be that a consultant could wrack up thousands of reward points a year on airline tickets alone, not to mention hotels, ground transportation, and food. The post Firm Credit Card Use Changes In 2019 appeared first on Management Consulted. Credit card reward points are … Continue Reading.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

When management makes bad choices, or underinvests in systems, training and people, it’s not really an error. When you planned a lazy and boring menu for the group meeting at your hotel, you chose to send a message of carelessness. In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. These are choices with consequences.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. Other times, we would be doing due diligence on a data center, and that would be a much more slimmed down team, probably one or two analysts and a manager.

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IMC USA

JULY 27, 2012

One of the greatest benefits of being in the management consulting business is the opportunity for growth. The Conference for Successful Management Consultants , is an opportunity for you to step back for a few days and work on your business so that you can be more effective in. Click here to watch a video of the hotel.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

One founder (who has chosen to remain anonymous) recently described this problem to us: “I had brought in a half-dozen managers to help professionalize my company, but after a while I couldn’t even understand what was being discussed at our management meetings. Then our head of supply chain would do the same.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Consultants can be placed under a lot of pressure, required to work extremely long hours, spend endless nights in lonely hotel rooms, and face the continual threat of redundancy either due to an economic downturn or the firm’s ‘up or out’ policy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2018

21c Museum Hotels. Some recent picks: Bloomberg article (“ Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women At All Cost “) and Response from Jefferies CEO Richard Handler. The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle (by Leslie Connor). TikTok (phone app). Robert Stavins (follow on Twitter). FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 10, 2016

Welcome to the New Year Management Consulted Subscribers ! The year promises the world’s first space hotel, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter, soccer’s Euro 2016 in France and the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the US Presidential Elections (aka circus) and much more. Strategy& ZS Associates.

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Harvard Business

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. And something was wrong. Our fine dining restaurant was on the brink of losing its hard-won Michelin rating.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

One stumbling block is that company policies and benefits aren’t clear — either to employees or their managers. “I came across Milk Stork, a milk shipment service, and took it to my manager. ” In the end, her manager shared that the firm already offered Milk Stork. Ask, Advocate, and Organize.

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IMC USA

MAY 22, 2012

The Conference for Successful Management Consultants. Hosted by the IMC USA in conjunction with the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes. What : An international conference for management consultants. Join your successful management colleagues for exciting content in a spectacular setting.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. If one cannot meet sufficient levels of performance, supply managers should be empowered to end the relationship. Hold supply managers accountable. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MAY 26, 2020

Keith Ferrazzi is a two-time New York Times best selling author, Harvard Business School graduate, and the former youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company at Starlight Hotels.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although the idea may sound far-fetched, not least because the automation of jobs is usually discussed vis-à-vis unskilled labor rather than management-level positions, it is actually more feasible than most people think. Workers around the world are disengaged with their jobs, and poor management is a major source of this problem.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If you’re a manager, it’s likely that introverts make up one-third to one-half of your team. As a manager, if you’re paying to send an introverted employee to a conference or event, how can you make sure they’re actually going to engage with people and not just hide out in their hotel room? Networking.

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IMC USA

APRIL 10, 2019

Fort Lauderdale, Florida — April 10, 2019 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces that its 2019 annual Consult-Con international consultants conference takes place October 4-6, 2019, at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel, a short drive from Love Field (DAL) and DFW Airport.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Rental licenses will be only given to properties for primary uses (hotels, offices, etc.), Clearly, the proposal seeks to eliminate competition to the unfair advantage of hotels. If hotels cannot compete against homeowners, they are charging too much for what they offer. Via Mish-modified translation from El Economista.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Additionally, hiring managers and clients associate certain pay ranges with the various labels. If you refer to yourself as a freelancer or consultant, what does that imply? Freelancers are more expensive than contractors.”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures. I saw that in an organization that had management signoff for changes the technical people made.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

That’s bad news and worse management. In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. Were competing hotels running unusual promotions that screwed up the model?

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

It was a beautiful Sunday, and the only real excitement was the day before – we got evacuated onto the lobby level of our hotel with 80MPH+ winds and major tornado warnings. By way of a quick words-only recap, we made our way back to Duke and got to train 30 eager sophomores and juniors preparing for their first interview season.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

I started a boutique hotel company when I was 26 and, after 24 years as CEO, sold it at the bottom of the Great Recession, not knowing what was next. But I was an “old-school” hotel guy and had never used Airbnb. Management theorist Peter Drucker was famously curious. That’s when Airbnb came calling.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

Yes, I think it is, but you can't always manage it when you want to manage it. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. One of the rising star engagement managers, who was now about two years away from partner, landed a monstrous 01 opportunity. But I was never home.

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MishTalk

JULY 9, 2015

Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions on a Bloomberg reporter's Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. spokeswoman said that the Athens hotel had billed the customer in euros, not drachmas. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In one study of hotel employees who did a lot of surface acting on the job (“Yes, ma’am, I’d be delighted to bring you a fluffier robe!”) Consider whether you can work with your manager to tweak your job so that it is more aligned with what is of value to you. And job stress can spill over into home life.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

Horst Schulze, cofounder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, started out cleaning ashtrays as a busboy before working his way up through some of the world’s best hotels and becoming COO of Ritz-Carlton and later CEO of Capella Hotel Group.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Two weeks ago I was in Dubai presenting a 6 hour workshop on the use of social media and mobile technology for emergency management, to the GCC healthcare sector. I had to dip my toes in the Persian Gulf – and take a picture with the only 7 star hotel in the world, The Burj Al Arab. This was one of the views from my hotel room.).

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