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By Rachel Long
"Don't blow a good crisis!"
That was Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's message to nearly 300 industry executives at Hospitality Design Summit in Duck Key, Florida, March 4-6, 2009, the ninth annual executive learning conference hosted by Hospitality Design (HD) magazine. Taylor, a Harvard-educated neuroanatomist who authored a book about her own traumatic stroke and subsequent recovery, challenged participants to foster right-brain thinking such as creativity and compassion. Noted Taylor, while the left brain frets over the current economic maelstrom, the right brain revels in new opportunities that may result.
Among thought-leaders presenting their viewpoints were Dartmouth professor Sydney Finkelstein on lessons from his book, Why Smart Executives Fail and What You Can Learn From Their Mistakes, and strategist Jill Hellman on The Art of the Advantage: 36 Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge, which applies the stratagems of Chinese warfare to business and life. Author James Kunstler opined on a post-oil America, and Future Laboratory co-founder Christopher Sanderson tracked the latest global trends.
In keynote presentations and networking, people were talking about the economy, development, new ideas, and the future. Dolly Ross, COO of Design Carl Ross Group, Inc., El Segundo, California, summed up the creativity and learning at HD Summit: "This year was exceptional; we needed to hear the down, and we were elevated by the up."
Thomas Trout, Carlson Hotels, and Ron Kollar, Tishman Hotel Corporation
Katelin Thompson, Alger, and Jerry Beale, Wynn Design and Development
Harvey Nudelman, Fabricut Contract; and Sean Tanner and Lee Cagley, Cagley & Tanner
Rick Sequeira, Serta International; Maureen and Kevin Crahan, Flexsteel
Gary Rosenthal, Duralee Contract, and Sean Hatch, Hatch Purchasing Corporation
Jeff Luchonok, iWORKS, and Carolyn Auger, Blackdog Studio
Joyce Romanoff, Maya Romanoff, and D.B. Kim, D.B. Kim Design
Bob Harnach, Hunter Douglas Hospitality; Pam Parsons, Parsons & Company; and Dana Thompson, Moen
Speaker Thomas Homer-Dixon
Susan Davidson and David Schultz, DAS Architects
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Hospitality Design Summit 2009 in Review
March 25, 2009By Rachel Long
"Don't blow a good crisis!"
That was Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's message to nearly 300 industry executives at Hospitality Design Summit in Duck Key, Florida, March 4-6, 2009, the ninth annual executive learning conference hosted by Hospitality Design (HD) magazine. Taylor, a Harvard-educated neuroanatomist who authored a book about her own traumatic stroke and subsequent recovery, challenged participants to foster right-brain thinking such as creativity and compassion. Noted Taylor, while the left brain frets over the current economic maelstrom, the right brain revels in new opportunities that may result.
Among thought-leaders presenting their viewpoints were Dartmouth professor Sydney Finkelstein on lessons from his book, Why Smart Executives Fail and What You Can Learn From Their Mistakes, and strategist Jill Hellman on The Art of the Advantage: 36 Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge, which applies the stratagems of Chinese warfare to business and life. Author James Kunstler opined on a post-oil America, and Future Laboratory co-founder Christopher Sanderson tracked the latest global trends.
In keynote presentations and networking, people were talking about the economy, development, new ideas, and the future. Dolly Ross, COO of Design Carl Ross Group, Inc., El Segundo, California, summed up the creativity and learning at HD Summit: "This year was exceptional; we needed to hear the down, and we were elevated by the up."
Thomas Trout, Carlson Hotels, and Ron Kollar, Tishman Hotel CorporationKatelin Thompson, Alger, and Jerry Beale, Wynn Design and DevelopmentHarvey Nudelman, Fabricut Contract; and Sean Tanner and Lee Cagley, Cagley & TannerRick Sequeira, Serta International; Maureen and Kevin Crahan, FlexsteelGary Rosenthal, Duralee Contract, and Sean Hatch, Hatch Purchasing CorporationJeff Luchonok, iWORKS, and Carolyn Auger, Blackdog StudioJoyce Romanoff, Maya Romanoff, and D.B. Kim, D.B. Kim DesignBob Harnach, Hunter Douglas Hospitality; Pam Parsons, Parsons & Company; and Dana Thompson, MoenSpeaker Thomas Homer-DixonSusan Davidson and David Schultz, DAS ArchitectsSave | Email | Print | Most Popular |
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