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Hospitality Financial Leadership – Investing in Financial Leadership in Your Hotel

CFO to CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing people and they leave?” CEO: “What happens if we don’t and they stay?”

I found this exchange in, of all places, the internet. Go figure. It’s an interesting back and forth that I know plays out in many organizations. Investing in anything…

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Hospitality Financial Leadership – Going Down The Road – Part 1

This title belongs to a classic 1970 Canadian movie about two guys from Nova Scotia, Joey and Peter. They moved to Toronto to seek their fame and fortune. As luck and the writers pen would have it, they found little of either. My story is about my trip from New Brunswick to Alberta, my version of trying to make a go…

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Hospitality Financial Leadership – Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale is arguably the world’s most famous modern-day impostor. Leonardo DiCaprio played his character in the 2002 movie directed by none other than Steven Spielberg, with the same title as this piece. The movie was based on the 1980 book that Frank wrote. I am writing about Frank Abagnale because I had…

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