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Curate Book Club: Range

If you work in hospitality sales, marketing, or revenue optimization, you’re something of a specialist — or even a subspecialist if, for example, you’re in the revenue department, concentrating on…

Innovation Book Club: Boom!

It’s not that companies don’t embrace innovation. They just don’t take it very seriously. That’s where Boom! Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die, by Lisa Hendrickson…

Innovation Book Club: Wisdom @ Work

Chip Conley found himself facing irrelevancy at age 52. It wasn’t too long after he’d sold Joie de Vivre, the influential boutique hotel company he’d founded 24 years before, and…

Innovation Book Club: ON Innovation

When Terry Jones founded Travelocity and then Kayak.com, among other travel startups, the idea was to give consumers an easier way to research, plan, and book trips. Jones certainly had…

Innovation Book Club: When

Daniel H. Pink’s best-selling books about business psychology include titles such as Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving…

Innovation Book Club: See Think Solve

Welcome to HSMAI’s Innovation Book Club, a new feature that will introduce Organizational Members to recently published books intended to get people and organizations to think differently. We begin with…

THINKing About Innovation With Fast Company

By Robert A. Gilbert, CHME, CHBA, President and CEO, Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Hotel company executives responsible for marketing, revenue, sales, and digital know how important innovation…