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Keys To Success | How to keep the PASSION in your career | 101 of the Greatest Ideas in Management - Apr 13, 2023: I first wrote on this topic for the Birmingham Alabama, BUSINESS FIRST weekly business newspaper. I recently found an old comic strip story, in Sally Forth, where the 11-year-old daughter is asking her working mother for help in completing a school assignment. The question is on careers and the mother is asked if her job is “fun.” The mother responds that “fun” is not quite the right word for it. “Are you sure that is what it says?” she asks. The daughter spells F-U-N and the mother continues, “If work were fun, people would say ‘I’m going to fun’, rather than ‘I’m going to work.’ ” The daughter answers she is confused; the mother puts everything into perspective by telling the daughter to “just put down that I usually like my job.”

A Glossary of Sustainability and Green Hotel Terms and Phrases

Hospitality Tip of the Week: Simple gratitude on all we have to be grateful for Feb 17, 2019: I encourage you to take less than 10 minutes to step back and enjoy this video message
I shared this with many of my LinkedIn groups
and the response was positive from around the world!

Heaven: by Hotel Standards May 17, 2018: Heaven: by Hotel Standards

The Parker House hotel in Boston Massachusetts has been open continuously since 1855, and is arguably the oldest continually operating hotel in the United States.

Hospitality Tip of the Week: The 2 Words That Will Change Your Life Forever... Nov 12, 2017: This worth reading AND thinking about a bit..................... It made realize I need to reactivate a workshop I have on the topic

What We Want and Need NOW in Hospitality Sep 20, 2016: How motivated are you ?

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”Is Hospitality Still a Place for Entrepreneurs?”

Dr. John Hogan, CHE CHA CMHS CHO

This is a non-traditional commissioned year-end column, in that is not a prediction of trends nor is it a list of New Year’s resolutions. I felt honored to have been asked by the editor of one of the world’s best known online publications to consider and share my thoughts on what we want to see more in the new year. I expanded it to include what we want and need in the coming year, which is reflected in the title that asks if hospitality is still the industry that motivates entrepreneurs.

Recommended Reading AND Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Remember the Lessons of The Classics Sep 19, 2016: Up the Organization: How to Stop the Organization From Stifling People and Strangling Profits

"This is a 30 year old classic I recently re-read for the 3rd time. It has logical and pragmatic approaches in bite size messages that remain timely.

Robert Townsend established himself and his company as the one "who tried harder" to meet customer needs. This book is an ABC manual of common sense business strategies beginning with Advertising and ending with Wearing out one's Welcome. He tackles nepotism, useless meetings, egos, in house politics, accountability and much more.

Townsend co-authored work with Tom Peters later in his career and one can see the influences they shared and believe in.

An excellent read- a classic!

Dr. John Hogan CHA CHE
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Recommended Reading: A solid planning resource for Succession Sep 10, 2016: In my work as an educator and consultant, I work with both family businesses of various sizes and with traditional corporate structures.

Each of them have a common need - planning for the future by either growing their own talent or by identifying and addressing their weaknesses them by finding the right professionals to strengthen their businesses.This means active succession planning, which sounds muck easier than it actually is.

I am not fond of the series titled "for Dummies" but some of these books do a credible job at simplifying the approaches needed to address the topic. This is one of them.

Remember and Reflect : Recommended Reading (and a video) Sep 10, 2016: American Lives:
The Stories Of The Men And Women Lost On September 11

The Habits of the World's Smartest People (Infographic) Jun 27, 2016: There is no one picture of intelligence, but many people with high IQs do tend to share some of the same habits -- both good and bad. For example, according to research complied by Online-PHD-Programs.org, while those with high IQs tend to set goals and read avidly, they are also more likely to drink more heavily and suffer from anxiety.