Category: Career
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Tales from Night Audit: GM You Can’t Turn Off
You can leave the GM role. You can’t turn off the way it rewires you. A few thoughts from the quiet hours of night audit.
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How I Really Know If I’m Winning as a Leader
Most leaders measure their week in numbers — revenue, covers, ADR, RevPAR, guest scores. I’ve done that too. But over time, I’ve learned to measure something harder to quantify: how I feel walking out the door on Friday night — and how my team feels about me as I leave. I don’t always get it…
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I failed a communication class at MTSU in 2005.
A reflection on how leadership evolves as responsibility, scale, and risk increase. From hands-on hospitality beginnings to managing complex organizations, this piece explores how lived experience reshapes worldview, decision-making, and what effective leadership truly requires at scale.
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Can Your Team Run Without You?
Strong leadership isn’t proven by long hours or constant control. It’s shown when your team thrives in your absence. In a 24/7 industry like hospitality, the best leaders prepare others to think, act, and care deeply enough to keep things running at full strength, no matter what life brings.
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