Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Just a few hours later, I found myself staring at a McDonald's from my hotel room. Fast forward a decade, and here we are again, bewildered by how technology, politics and other forces seem to be disrupting the world we knew and know. The first time I read Paradigms almost 25 years ago, it led me to disrupt and then change my career.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In the early morning before this particular chat I got into the shower at my hotel and started to gather my thoughts. “OK, We can get so caught up in all the nuts and bolts, the campaigns and brands, the product and technology, and the processes and policy that we forget the essence of what we’re doing. It was so simple! 15 times?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

What was the most challenging yet rewarding decision you had to take in your career? Our decision to create and share our Change Starts Here initiative is an example of this as is the creation of RiseHY, a commitment by Hyatt and Hyatt hotels to hire 10,000 Opportunity Youth (youth ages 16-24 not in school and not employed).

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 9, 2023

The study indicates that venture capital for the technology sector exacerbates pay inequality in the broader economy. This category encompasses many waiters, hotel staff, and fast-food workers.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Home-based businesses are a great way for busy people to take more control of their careers , but starting your own business can be intimidating. Being a consultant for an established company is a great way for individuals to build career skills while maintaining control over their success. That's okay!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2016

at a local hotel. I’ve found that just being conscious of the obvious shortcomings of the technology goes a long way. The day has come to elevate your meetings and your role in them, and to use meetings as a tool to take your company and your career to the next level. Typically, I will book a suite from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

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. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. There's a lot at stake here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Omni Hotels & Resorts used a blogger outreach program to promote its meetings and events business to a micro-audience of influencers ignored by its competitors, leading to hundreds of conversations and direct sales leads. That feedback makes later iterations of our products better, faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. We were at the Savoy Hotel, and the ballroom was full of all these British investment bankers, and we give our normal pitch. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. Newspapers have been unbundled by blogs and classified ad sites.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. And on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Soon, it will be easy to know that the person who buys Colin Dexter books on Amazon is the same person who streams Inspector Lewis on Netflix, checks out the Randolph Hotel TripAdvisor, and searches for flights to Heathrow on Kayak. Furthermore, being a luddite will probably damage your career.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies. The likely trend in global technology entrepreneurship?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. These companies had to do something.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. Over time, California is experiencing a brain gain over regions that restrict workers’ ability to move more freely in their career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. They knew that technology (and the staff to support it) was the company’s bread and butter. We need to make a statement—not just new technology, new people.” Some of that was true.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Faculty of Columbia Business School.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

For some years, excerpts from his address hung in the men's locker room at a popular gym at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, visited by Harvard students, faculty and visitors alike. Those verses have resonated down through the ages to remind each generation what can still lie ahead. One alumnus is now the head of NASA.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

They holed up at the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue and heard from top business school researchers and behavioral psychologists about dangerous cognitive biases. Today’s super-fast technology cues traders’ fight-or-flight responses, leading them to make snap decisions that do not account for the probability of disastrous future events.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The Order of United Commercial Travelers , for instance, was founded to “ improve character and instill temperate habits,” and Gideon bibles were originally put in hotel rooms to help “ eliminate gambling , drinking, dirty jokes, Sunday trading and other forms of temptation peculiar to traveling (sales) men.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” After a senior law enforcement official chased me around a hotel room while we both served on a statewide board for community colleges, I left the education field.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Writing in the Wall Street Journal in October 2019, Doctor Azra Raza laments the fact that little true progress has been made in cancer treatments in the three-plus decades of his career. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.” The Quarantine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

and were being chauffeured to their Bologna hotel when Donny suddenly told their driver to stop. But Donny, who'd spent 40 years in consumer advertising, had a gut feeling that no such technology, no matter how dazzling, could ever beat the value of aiming ads at 18-to-49-year-olds. You're building your lives and your careers.

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