by Joe Rice | Apr 14, 2020 | Career Advice
Our lives move fast. With three daughters under 5 years old, and as the Founder and Managing Partner of a fast-growing business; life sprints for me. I generally start my day by asking God for the passion, energy and focus required to do my job(s) well, and then...
by Joe Rice | Mar 31, 2020 | Hotel Industry
Having grown up in a lower-middle-class neighborhood with some not-so-easy-life circumstances I learned a crash course in resiliency and toughness. One of my mom’s old adages that still rings in my ear today, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!” Well the...
by Joe Rice | Jan 28, 2020 | Leadership
The one mistake virtually every young manager in the hospitality industry makes is that they all try to do too much. This is understandable, especially for managers taking on their first job or managers getting promoted to department heads or higher for the first...
by Joe Rice | Jan 21, 2020 | Hotel Industry, Industry Trends
The new year is here and we are already seeing a new direction for the industry in terms of being shaped by a specific demographic of traveler as well as some marketing and amenity trends coming to fruition. The year is young, so if you are not capitalizing or...
by Joe Rice | Jan 14, 2020 | Hotel Industry
As a leader of a team, the one thing you can never do is make an assumption… about anything. Having said that, some assumptions are worse to make than others. Over the years and through talking to other hospitality managers, this topic has been discussed thoroughly...