– Entrepreneurship – Crowdfunding – Consumer Behaviour – Having recently returned from the European Foodservice Summit in Zurich I was reminded of the fact that the restaurant sector is one... read more →
Download full report Aethos™ 2016 General Manager Compensation Study. Any expert will quickly corroborate what readers already know – that seismic shifts are underway within the hospitality industry. The sharing... read more →
The start of this college and professional football season reminded me of a semi-cult football classic, “The Program.” In this coming-of-age movie the head coach pushes a college football team... read more →
What challenges will we face as the sector consolidates? “I expect there are a lot of people out on the market at present?” I have been presented with this supposition... read more →
PAST… The competency profile of professionals in Human Resources (HR) roles has always been a moving target. Consider the various names the function has taken over the decades – staffing,... read more →
Consequences of M&A activity in the hospitality industry are increasingly making headlines, fuelled by a greater complexity of owning- and operating structures and an ever larger number of international stakeholders...... read more →
Public Boards are increasingly under siege by shareholder activists, putting unprecedented pressure on Board members to perform in all manner of ways to boost enterprise value. But what does it... read more →
There may be no better way for hospitality firms to learn and gain inspiration for successfully transforming their businesses by leveraging technology than by looking at some of the “unicorns”... read more →
What do Belmond, Caesar’s Entertainment, Carlson, China Lodging, Jumeirah, Mandarin Oriental, Millennium & Copthorne, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and Whitbread have in common? The answer is they all announced a... read more →
This era of big data, global connectedness, and instant access to a wealth of social media information makes it tempting for organizations sourcing or vetting executive talent to assume that... read more →