Having developed my leadership and operational skills over 30+ years of hospitality management, learning my craft over the years in many capacities, starting with running pool staffs in college to regional management positions overseeing 20+ hotels at times with direct and indirect oversight of 600+ team members. I have opened new hotels and developed old and new markets in multiple cities throughout the United States with great success.What did I learn? It’s about the people. Surround yourself with strong, dependable, focused people and you will always achieve the success you seek.I’ll never say there was a specific point the lesson presented itself as it developed over many successes and yes, mistakes. I learned and I relish sharing that knowledge and take great pride in those I helped develop along the way and feel I helped touch their lives in positive ways. I also feel sorrow and disappointment that I might not have helped others to my full ability along the way.The best way to describe the philosophy I follow is to recruit, hire and train good people, give them great training and guidance, then get out of their way. People tend to step up to their level of capabilities The job of leaders is to provide the tools so they may reach higher.We work within those realms, we help companies develop hiring plans, teach them to execute those plans with training and support and supply all the tools needed to find, train and retain great people. Please feel free to connect professionally, as you never know how we can help each other by sharing our life experiences with each other, as well as help the next group of eager leaders succeed.