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Entrepreneurs Corner: In Conversation With Pizza Rossa Founder Corrado Accardi

Corrado Accardi is one of those London entrepreneurs who took the plunge and who left a corporate career in order to become the founder of Pizza Rossa, a by-the-slice Italian eatery. I was keen to talk to him about entrepreneurship and leadership, financing a start-up and the challenges represented by changes in consumer behaviour as well as his views on industry disruptors – in particular third party delivery companies – and social media.

Trends and Takeaways on Compensation for Lodging GMs

The General Manager (GM) is the undisputed business and cultural nucleus of the hotel ecosystem, and recent research indicates that such leadership roles require competencies – including emotional intelligence, adaptability and consultative decision-making - that can neither be relegated nor replaced by technology. As a result, the proverbial “war for talent” is more topical and critical than ever. To this end, let us explore pertinent data and trends for hotel owners and operators to make informed decisions when designing programs to attract and retain high-impact GMs.

“Are You Hurt or Injured?” – Assessing Your Current Career Situation

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 to do whatever it takes to win. At one point, a key player goes down with an injury and the coach asks the pivotal question, “Are you hurt or are you injured?” He goes on to explain, “if you’re hurt, you can still play. If you’re injured, you can’t.” This film inspired me to make a connection between one’s career path decisions and the “hurt or injured” distinction from the movie.

M&A’s Impact On The Hotel Talent Market

“I expect there are a lot of people out on the market at present?” - I have been presented with this supposition on a large number of occasions this year, mostly by small to medium sized hotel groups who are hopeful that the consolidation currently underway in the sector equates to an abundance of laid off talent that they can snap up.

The New Norm in Global HR Competencies

Aethos™ has recently profiled more than a 1,200 HR leaders from around the world. Results across ten core competencies that independent studies validate as significant predictors of performance in the service-hospitality industry indicate that modern HR pros look increasingly like CEOs and decreasingly like their peer set from five years ago.

Next – A Future Leaders Summit

Aethos Consulting Group™ was honoured to co-sponsor “Next, A Future Leaders Summit” together with HTL Capital Advisors as part of HotelsMegaMeet in Sydney last month. “Next” was aimed at providing rising stars of the Australian hospitality industry with an opportunity to learn from, and to interact with, leading players from the industry as well as their peers. Key takeaways of the event included:

Corporate Governance And M&A Activity in Hospitality: Boards, Shareholders And (Potential) Conflicts of Interest

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... What are the best practices to protect oneself from unwanted consequences?

“Specific Curiosity” – The Trick for Building Innovation Bench-Strength for Organizations

There has been much discussion lately about disruptors – present and future – to the hospitality industry and what this means for leaders and strategic planning. What measures should an organization take to position itself to compete in this “continuously disruptive” environment? A quick answer that comes to many is “better use of technology” – to digitally transform the business.

Boosting Board Governance with Todd Diener

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 mean to perform as a Board member?

Hotel Leaders, “What’s Your MTP?” – A Question About Business Transformation and Technology

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” that have successfully tapped into the hospitality sector.