Details matter

The holiday season brings a surge of dinner parties. Each host has a choice: serve a good meal or create something memorable. A family in Milan spent generations perfecting their tiramisu recipe. The secret? They aged their ladyfingers for exactly 72 hours at precise...

Taking pulse

There are two types of people in every organization: those driven by self-interest and those fueled by purpose. Nowhere is this contrast more evident than in the hospitality industry. Consider the tale of two hotel front desk attendants. One sees each guest as a task...

Behind the scenes

There’s an intricate dance behind every product, customer experience, or spectacle. Ideation, planning, execution – all essential. But here’s the truth: Few truly care about your behind-the-scenes struggles. When organizations fixate on challenges...

Human touch

How many emails and texts do you need to know your package is arriving? One? Five? Twenty? We’re outsourcing human engagement to automated systems, losing the personal touch in the process. One more notification becomes one too many. Maya Angelou wisely said,...

Appropriate response

When we assess, comment on, and provide feedback on an experience, we can easily cloud all the elements in our overall review. The room was tired, the product was not to our liking, and the experience was not as we are accustomed to. It is easy to label everything as...