Mike Hohnen

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Once again we went to Provence for a 4 day total immersion tour of French food. With us where 12 Danish Hotel GM’s
If you would like to see the itinerary and detail of the trip here is the pdf brochure and headlines of our trip.

This was the hotel we stayed in the first night – need I say more…

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Endnu engang tog vi til Provence i fire dages total fordybelse i fransk mad. Med os var 12 danske hoteldirektører. Hvis du vil se en detaljeret rejsebeskrivelse, så er her brochuren og turens hovedoverskrifter.

Dette er hotellet, vi boede på den første nat – behøver jeg sige mere…

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Seth Godin writes:

…at the great Bolshoi Ballet, auditions for the troupe were conducted among 8 year old girls. That’s because it took ten years to become great. How did the auditions work? The teachers weren’t looking for the best dancers. They were looking for the dancers who took coaching the best. The rest would come with time.

How coachable are your new recruits

Original post from Seth Godin here…

I picked a few interesting quotes on the subject of generating loyalty from an article in the Boston Globe – you will find the full article here

“Organizations are not a source of security but they are a source of identity,” says Bill Taylor, cofounder of the magazine Fast Company and coauthor of the book, “Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win.”

One of the most common ways of finding meaning at work is through personal development. “Loyalty as a function of time is a dated idea,” says Jaerid Rossi, process engineer at Specialty Minerals of Canaan, Conn. “Work is only appealing if there’s constant learning.”

There’s nothing as exhilarating as a genuinely new idea. So where do great ideas come from? The traditional answer is that big ideas come from big brains: The eccentric genius (think Sir Richard Branson), or the visionary CEO (think Apple’s Steve Jobs). In this model, the boss does the thinking and the employees do the work. If you are in charge, you are, by definition, “the smartest person in the room”.

Read the full article in The Guardian here