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Hospitality Financial Leadership – Brotherly Love
I didn’t start out in the hotel business with a plan or even any desire to be a financial leader. I was going to be a GM one day. Well, all that changed in 1986.
The large downtown hotel was a big change from the youth-infused Rocky Mountain resort hotel where I…
Hospitality Financial Leadership – Moving Part 1
In the hotel business if you want to get ahead you better be ready to move. It’s the way in which you can multiply your opportunities and increase your chance for greater personal prosperity. That’s the way it was explained to me many years ago and it has certainly been my…
Hospitality Financial Leadership – What Do Peter Pan and Your Hotel Career Have in Common?
“All children, except one, grow up.” ~ Peter Pan
In the hotel business we don’t want to grow up either. That’s why so many people find our business so exciting and interesting and that’s why they stick around and work crazy days and super long weeks. Why else would anyone…
Chapter 11 – Being
The chapter below is an excerpt from my new book. It’s fiction but some of the characters and story lines are based on people I have worked with and events that have taken place in the hotels I have worked in. The book is a fable about a hotel manager who has some very bad habits. He must change…
Chapter 9 – The Offer
The chapter below is an excerpt from my new book. It’s fiction but some of the characters and story lines are based on people I have worked with and events that have taken place in the hotels I have worked in. The book is a fable about a hotel manager who has some very bad habits. He must change…
Hospitality Financial Leadership – Everyone Is Famous for 15 Seconds
This pop culture expression was coined by Andy Warhol and a friend Nat Finkelstein in 1968. I’m taking some liberties here but in 1968 it was 15 minutes of fame and in today’s world – who’s got 15 whole minutes anymore – it’s 15 seconds!
This story is about my 15 seconds of so-called fame. Fame to me…