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Dec 6, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
It is fascinating how changing just a single letter in a word can make a big difference in what that word means. Change Book to Cook and you go from a collection of written pages to someone who prepares food. Change Sand to Hand and you are no longer talking about tiny grains of sand found on beaches but the part of a body at the end of an arm.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
We have all been there. Call it the rise of populism, the growth of grass roots movements, or the increasing recognition of environmental change, NIMBY – Not In My Back Yard -- is impacting us in both our personal and “hotel” lives.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
We have all been there. Call it the rise of populism, the growth of grass roots movements, or the increasing recognition of environmental change, NIMBY – Not In My Back Yard – is impacting us in both our personal and “hotel” lives.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
Many of us go on big trips to celebrate milestones in our lives – birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, retirements. My husband, Bob, and I were no different. Our trip to Boston celebrating my birthday over the 4th of July to experience the magnificent Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular and sail on the USS Constitution inaugural harbor sailing that marked her restoration.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
My dad was one of those people who could envision and build just about anything. Whether it was a cabinet that held my baby clothes, or a ping pong table, his mind would come up with a creative design and his hands would produce what became an exceptional, functional, and beautiful piece of furniture.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
hotelexecutive.com | Connor Vanderholm |John Bohlmann |Rachel Svoboda |Bonnie J. Knutson
In the glamorous world of hotel marketing, where every room has a view (even if it's of the parking lot) and the beds always promise dreams sweeter than honey. On the flip side, revenue management often plays the role of the pragmatic penny-pincher, meticulously balancing demand with price, sometimes a little too conservatively. It's a classic tale of ambition meeting reality, where the marketing department's champagne wishes run into the revenue management's beer budget.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
Like many of you, I have several meaningful quotes framed and either hanging on a wall or standing upright on a shelf in my office. One of my favorites is tacked on the wall right next to my office door. It is there to remind me that there is always an opportunity to overcome any challenge. I just need to find it.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
hotelexecutive.com | Bonnie Knutson Professor |Bonnie J. Knutson |László Puczkó |Michael Koethner
Like many of you, I have several meaningful quotes framed and either hanging on a wall or standing upright on a shelf in my office. One of my favorites is tacked on the wall right next to my office door. It is there to remind me that there is always an opportunity to overcome any challenge. I just need to find it.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
hospitalitynet.org | Bonnie J. Knutson
Read any business journal or industry publication and you will find at least one article focusing on how important it is for organizations to innovate. Watch any online business channel and you will see segment after segment promoting the same thing. So for fun, I did an online search for the "importance of creativity in business leadership" and got more than 144 million hits. Change "creativity" to "innovation" and the number jumps to more than 603 million.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
newslocker.com | Bonnie J. Knutson
