Muji – the Japanes design store is a lighthouse when it comes to observing what is next. In their new megastore in Tokyo you can now buy wine by the glass to take home…
Spotted by Jean Snow
Pizza Kones – hit the news in Denmark
Our article in this months copy of Danish hospitality magazine Visitor hit the streets yesterday and created an unexpected flurry of interest from local Danish media – I was interviewed by Ritzau the news agency and later in the day for Danish Brodcasting who did a 4 min piece on Pizza Kone on the 18 o’clock news.
Business.Dk wrote the story on their business blog: Pizza Nu som Vaffel
If you mised my earlier post here on the blog you will find it here
There is also a video clip of the production process here
Springwise also have an update on this
4p's not what they used to be
You may remember the 4P of Marketing ( Product, Price, etc) Increasingly there semes to be a shift towards a new set of 4P’s : Purpose, People, Planet and Profit – and in that order.
This is the message that comes through loud and clear in Mavericks at Work – it is the driving force behind a new town guide out in San Fransisco the Green Zebra. Closer to home – for me – it is also the driving force behind by most favourite restaurant La Chassagnette.
The restaurants purpose is to promote the Carmargue region in the south of France – as such the restaurnt is part of a larger project know as Heureuse Camargue – in their own words:
“In this natural and preserved landscape the women and men of “Heureuse Camargue” have consciously chosen to take up a challenge, an undertaking to the practice of organic agriculture, incontestably sustainable and respectful of a major ecological balance. We are committing an act of faith.”
If you are in the South of France this summer I recomend that you pay them a visit.
Ready for the future?
Fasten your seat belt and take a quick look at Europe 2020
Enjoy!
The Welcoming Leader
The Welcoming Leader: “Welcoming leadership is about inspiring people to want to achieve common goals. For a welcoming leader, the emphasis is on the person. … It requires an honesty and authenticity from you as a leader that has been lacking in many of our bosses in the past. In a world where everything looks similar—products and places, companies and countries—a guest or employee makes his decision to participate and commit based on how welcome he feels. To provide hostmanship … we have to rejoice in serving others and provide leadership that reflects this.”
Hostmanship: The Art of Making People Feel Welcome
Authors Jan Gunnarsson and Olle Blohm are getting their great message out not just in Scandinavia but also in the USA now
Creative Halfway meeting
Today we reached the halfway point with the TIVOLI management team who are doing our GROW Leadership programme at the moment – that is the day they present their personal chalenges to the CEO and each other. This is always good fun and a time when teams display lots of creativity.
. One manager showed his management team as a garden with plants. Each plant has special instructions as to how it is best cared for. Nice metaphor.
Another illustrated the complexity of the task at hand with this collection of sticks – each stick was labled – service, food cost, Guest satisfaction etc – the point was touch one and you affect the others…
We had a great day!
Pizza Cone – next big thing in fast food ?
Grab, Grip and no drip has been the mantra of success in the Fast Food business for years. Pionered by the Americans and their need to drive and eat. You can eat a hot dog or posibly a burger in your car – but you can’t walk on a crowded street and talk in your cell phone and eat a burger at the same time. Solution a hand held meal in a cone – simple and obvious once you have seen it. Pizza Cones are the big thing i Korea and rapidely spreading to other parts of Asia.
PizzaKonno
CrispyCone
Welcome to our new website!
For a long time now I have wanted to combine the Thoughts4action blog with our website so as not to have to manage two websites. For the time being we are sticking to English here but i will be adding Danish language pages on Danish topics very soon – so stay tunned.
We will also be moving most of the posts and articles from the T4A blog over to this website in the future – step by step – but now we are headed in the right direction.
If you have comments or ideas please let me know
Mike