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HospitalityEducators.com co-founder John Hogan has created a series of columns on various topics over the past ten years that include 13, or a Baker’s Dozen, points on a range of topics. During the past 25 years in workshops, seminars and presentations, he has been collecting an assortment of "myths" that many of us have held as self-evident truths. He has shared one or two of these in earlier blogs or columns, but this list is much more comprehensive.

Judge for yourself the depth of these following items, and decide for yourself if you agree with the assessment whether they are “myths or facts":

Business Networking Insights and Successes Dec 2, 2013: Stop – Don’t Go to a Business Networking Event Until You’ve Read This

Google+ & SEO: How Google+ Impacts Search Results Nov 25, 2013

Readying Your Hotel for Sale Nov 19, 2013: With transaction volumes in early 2013, 50 percent ahead of the level in early 2012, many owners today are asking themselves if this is the right time to sell.

Government Tax Incentives on Sustainability - If you want to know where to start... Nov 14, 2013: Government Tax Incentives

What is it That You Do With All Those Business Cards After.............. Nov 13, 2013: What is it That You Do With All Those Business Cards After the Networking Event?

America's Promise Alliance : Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company's "Succeed Through Service" Nov 13, 2013: In partnership with America's Promise Alliance, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company developed "Succeed Through Service" to engage employees at all Ritz-Carlton hotels, residences and destination clubs with a school in a underserved local community. "Succeed Through Service focuses on giving young people a bright future through life-skills training, career exploration, and service-learning projects," said Ritz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler. "As the name suggests, Succeed Through Service is all about helping young people thrive and inspiring them do their best."

Who Uses More Startup Capital - Men or Women? Nov 11, 2013: More importantly, just because a business was launched with less startup capital doesn’t mean that it will be more successful. Are women entrepreneurs being more risk-averse to their detriment, or simply being frugal? What do you think?

Understanding that the same things do motivate not all of us: A new look at awards and recognition ........... Nov 11, 2013: In the hospitality industry, we often privately and publicly talk about our most important asset as being our people. We hear that it is not the "polished marble or the lobby waterfalls or the shiny brass" that will make us successful, but the staff that we employ to carry our message, to represent us and to meet the needs of our customers. There are dozensI of ways to accomplish this and many of them need not cost much in money, but they do need the "cost" of attention and managerial/owner time.

TripAdvisor to Remove Negative Reviews after Hotels Renovate Nov 8, 2013: TripAdvisor has been applauded for agreeing to remove old negative reviews after hotels undergo refurbishment.

Steve Tate, chairman of Hotel risk management body CheckSafetyFirst.com, said the online travel reviews giant should be commended for reviewing its policy towards hotels which want to "wipe the review slate clean" after major renovations have taken place.

How to Turn Around Nearly Anything Nov 8, 2013: HBR Blog Network

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. With renewed solidarity and determination, the beard-wearing Sox went on to win the division, the playoffs, and the big prize.

Their game is baseball, my game is change.