AETHOS Hotel CEO Turnover Study 2020

The Status-Quo: “Nobody Moves!” AETHOS has been tracking CEO turnover at the 50 largest public or privately-held hotel companies for well over fifteen years and there have been since only two years in which there was less ‘shuffling of seats’ for th…

Take Local to the Extreme

But if you are pursuing a course that many of your competitors are also going after, how do you stand apart? The answer is to go deep into your culture and lore, and simply outdo your rivals through what I call ‘extreme local’. Every city is unquest…

The great hospitality reset

Do you ever feel like time can go by at different speeds? While on vacation, an entire week may go by in a few hours, whereas, at work, a bad day can sometimes feel interminable. This is often described as the elasticity of time, which is strictly a…

What Are You Grateful For?

I depart from my typical customer service articles to write something that falls into the motivational category. I was on a Zoom meeting with some of my colleagues in the speaking profession. All of these people are brilliant and hearing how they ha…