Productivity

1. In our…

It is common sense to know: With more knowledge and skills, your career prospects and advancement possibilities are enhanced. In hospitality, it is not quite as well understood.

There exists a counter-culture to growing up, to raising one’s self out of the guest- and the colleague-only world into the financial arena. I…

“Nobody Gets to Be Wrong, Everyone is Wrong, No One Gets to Be Right, Everyone is Right”

I use this quote to start many of my workshops. To me, it’s the way I want the participants to stand in their individual power during our time together. It’s also how I…

When you are preparing your budgets, an incredibly valuable tool is what I refer to as the “citywide supply and demand analysis.” I didn’t come up with this, however, I am going to explain how it works, why it’s so important to complete it at least…

I am going to begin this piece with a quote because I know there is BIG TIME pushback on the idea of multi-tasking. Being so popular in our modern work society the idea of multi-tasking is more than a fad, more than say IBU (Individual Business Units)…

In life, few things make us less productive and more distant than other people’s expectations of us. Expectations are everywhere, at work and at home. People detest others expectations.

Uncommunicated expectations were not productive, especially when real work and strong relationships were required. Yet uncommunicated expectations were cast everywhere and they were weak.