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Leadership

The Correlation of Leadership Style and Incentives

Effective leadership is essential for a business's success, but each organization has its own leadership culture, and each team leader has their own management style. The challenge for hospitality firms is to create incentives that work for both team leaders and team members.


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Being a Successful Revenue Leader During This Time - By Kunal Shah

What makes a good hospitality revenue professional during these uncertain times? Members of HSMAI’s Revenue Optimization Board (ROAB) discussed this question on a call on June 11. Their answers were wide ranging, but most agreed that it goes beyond simply being technically skilled - and that today’s environment brings soft skills into the limelight more than ever.


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Do You Lead with Purpose?

Author Nick Craig explains how knowing your purpose can provide sound footing in today's business environment.




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Knowledge@Wharton - Bloomberg's Peter Grauer: How the 'And Factor' Defines Leadership

Bloomberg LP chairman Peter Grauer believes good leadership is all about contradictions. During a speech at the recent Wharton Leadership Conference, he noted that the best leaders are able to adopt different personas and styles based on what is called for in a given situation. Good leaders, he added, also know that the next big opportunity or great hire could come from anywhere, and they conduct themselves accordingly.





The Gentle Leader - By Gregg Thompson

James Kavanaugh once suggested that there are 'those too gentle to live among the wolves'. I hope this is no longer true in today's organizations. I believe that the 'wolves' have had their day and need to make way for a new breed of manager: The Gentle Leader.


Lessons from the Field - Now is the time to invest in Your People - By John Hogan

For much of the past two years, many industries faced serious economic challenges, including dramatic erosion of revenue and profitability, as well as the loss of long-term customers and loyal staff. As an industry, hospitality in literally all segments struggled to find ways to meet the global financial meltdown and the scorecard is not yet in for 2009 end of year results.