What are Your Core Values? | Recommended Reading from HospitalityEducators.com

			When Core Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter & Gamble Transformed Leadership at Fortune 500 Companies by Rick Tocquigny
Highly recommended, whatever your industry or company size! When Core Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter & Gamble Transformed Leadership at Fortune 500 Companies There seems to be a recent trend of books featuring retired or former executives of major companies sharing their experiences, successes and yes, even shortcomings. This book is one of them and I find this one to have many positive features. Without a doubt, Procter & Gamble has been a mainstay in successful companies and has positioned itself as a force in developing leadership both internally and other organizations, be they small or Fortune 500 Companies The authors sought to identify through stories and illustrations how Proctor & Gamble achieved its long term successes. Rick Tocquigny and Andy Butcher measured quantitative research from a large P&G alumni from around the world and found many similarities in values and commitment, which one would I imagine is how they arrived at the book title. Many of the interviews contain values that are motivating, at times inspiring and that offer non P&G professionals a sense of their own values as well. These interviews and stories from P&G leaders on their professional experiences reveal what they learned while part of the Proctor & Gamble team, as well as how it affected their lives after they left. The book could at times seem almost monotonous and repetitive, as almost each of the 36 featured leaders share their almost identical values of teamwork, vision, integrity, leadership, and responsibility by accountability, yet it is these values that has made P&G and these individuals unique in a world that seems to be moving towards a selection of bland commodity choices. The 36 stories are split among six segments, but none of them differ in importantance: 1. Sustaining Industry Leadership 2. Applying Core Values for Capability 3. Core Values and Teamwork 4. Core Values Drive Vision 5. Doing the Right Thing 6. Changing Lives The authors allow the leaders the options to share their own message in their own way, yet each does tie back to the values theme. They include the need for ongoing and continuing professional development for people throughout an organization, as well as the need for leaders to “walk the walk” of leadership by example. I cannot say that I had given P&G much thought as it was not in my industry of career choice, but this book is an excellent resource. Highly recommended! Dr. John Hogan CHA CHE CMHS CHO HospitalityEducators Hogan Hospitality Success does not come by accident or chance. Contact us for assistance. John.Hogan@HospitalityEducators.com or 602-799-5375 HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 1,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More   KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success. Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,   John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today. www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability. www.HoganHospitality.com Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

Shared Thoughts from our Master Hospitality Planner and Promotional Calendar

New Year’s Resolutions are one thing…. a calendar of events that provides a road map of operational and marketing reminders is an effective way to keep fresh and current.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	February 2013
2/17 Review your recruiting resources and find a new one	2/18    Call at least 5 clients this week      Check the condition of all ice machines and  water filters.	2/19   Set-up cross training of at least one person this week- it will motivate them and help everyone	2/20 Review & update your web site,   whether you are branded or independent. You must keep this fresh & current!	2/21 Review all emergency plans regularly with staff. Update quarterly or as needed – document changes	2/22  Change oil and document safety check of hotel vehicles – at least every 60 days or as needed	2/23 Test fire alarm  & check all fire extinguishers- document.

Success does not come by accident or chance.

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HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 1,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today.
www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability.

www.HoganHospitality.com
Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

 

Recommended Reading from HospitalityEducators.com| Winning Every Day

A Motivating Message of Sincerity and Inspiration,Winning Every Day I had the opportunity to hear Lou Holtz as a keynote speaker a number of years ago,and I must say I was impressed by his message!   His message was not about sports or football, but about the challenges facing each of us in LIFE. While I knew a bit of his coaching background, I did not know much about the man, his beliefs or his approaches. This book is an illustration of his messages that day – inspiring, down-to-earth, focused and caring. Unlike some other speakers who deliver their same speech regardless of where they are, Holtz personalized his message to the audience and that is what this book does.In 11 chapters, he outlines his style and love of coaching, but he focuses more on his attention to family, the athletes he sincerely cares about and the role of the university or    team environment. He is amusing, but sincere. His stories about attitude, perseverance, standards, pride, the lessons learned in both winning and losing are heartfelt and real. I looked at other reviews and some of them were a bit critical about Notre Dame details or grammar, but this book is more than a coach talking about wins and championships.   It is relevant to hospitality because each of us clearly needs others – all successful hotels are teams.   This is a book about dealing with the challenges of reality in life as well as a sport and I find it excellent.   As always, comments are welcome Dr. John Hogan CHA CHE CHO HospitalityEducators HoganHospitality

Success does not come by accident or chance.

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HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 1,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today.
www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability.

www.HoganHospitality.com
Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

Reflections- People Who Made a Difference | Donald E. Lundberg

Reflections

We don’t always know what we want or what we expect and my first undergraduate class in my major was a real shocker for me.

Donald E. Lundberg was the department head of Hotel & Restaurant Administration when I first enrolled at the University of Massachusetts.   Few department heads at that time taught the Hotel 101 class (Introduction to Hospitality and Hotels), yet Dr. Lundberg seemed to cherish the 8am class every Monday, Wednesday and Friday that was perhaps not such very popular time slot for the 200+ freshmen and sophomores taking the class.

My recollections of the class were two-fold:

1)      it was a very good class In the sense that it provided an exceptional history of many individuals around the world that had been pioneers and

2)      I also learned that university grading was not the same as high school.  My 85 became a C, as he decided in his wisdom that a curve was to be used, meaning that at least 10% of the class would fail, no more than 5% would get an A and the balance was a formula never shared with students.

I got over the frustration of receiving a C in my first major class and learned a lesson on the need to better prepare on things that were important, because life is not always fair and there are many surprises to be experienced.  I learned there was a real need to do “a bit more”.

Dr. Lundberg left UMASS my senior year to begin a new program on the west coast and to continue his book authorship.  His books on restaurants, cooking, tourism and industry leadership remain available on many web sites today.

I came to respect his knowledge and that his approaches were not as draconian as first imagined.  In fact, in my Junior year, I served as his undergraduate teaching assistant in that Hotel 101 class.   This experience led me to a career of interaction with higher education as an adjunct professor at three colleges over a 20 year period, as a corporate educator working with professionals and as an author and seminar leader.

The reflection here for me – remember those who influenced you and the reasons for that influence.    As I progress in my career, I try to impact others in the positive ways I feel provide value and growth for those I come in contact with.

Success does not come by accident or chance.

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KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today.
www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability.

www.HoganHospitality.com
Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Direction

    

Hotel Profitability

Which direction are you going?    

This particular tip was inspired by conversations between fictional main characters in Patrick Taylors’ Irish Country Doctors series.
Dr. John Hogan 

Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Direction

One has to know a sense of direction in order to succeed.
If you feel like quitting and leaving a situation, that would be “going from.“

• If you have the urge to follow your heart or a feeling, then you would be “going to.”
• One needs to give serious thought to this simple change of only one word – are you “going from or going to?“
• If you go from, you will always wonder if you could have made it in that situation you choose to leave.

• But then if you don’t go to, you could end up regretting it for the rest of your life.

Success does not come by accident or chance.

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HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 1,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today.
www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability.

www.HoganHospitality.com
Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

Ten Distinguishing Traits of a Successful Quality Assurance Program

Ten Distinguishing Traits of a Successful Quality Assurance Program

1. Senior Management is convinced, committed and regularly contributes to the program.
2. There is a philosophy and a plan.
3. Measuring Progress continually is required.
4. Quality needs to be rewarded.
5. Cross training is essential.
6. One step at a time.
7. Maintaining Constant Re-enforcement, Stimulation and Change.
8. Realization that when quality goes up, so do net long-term profits.
9. Quality Assurance programs need to become part of everyone’s Standard Operating Procedures.
10. Quality Assurance and improvement is a never-ending voyage.

Success does not come by accident or chance.

Contact us for assistance.

John.Hogan@HospitalityEducators.com or 602-799-5375

HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 1,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today.
www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability.

www.HoganHospitality.com
Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

Recommended Reading from HospitalityEducators.com – Business Succession Planning For Dummies

  Business Succession Planning For Dummies

    by Arnold Dahlke

  5.0 out of 5 stars

A solid planning resource for Succession Planning, October 25, 2012

In my work as an educator and consultant, I work with both family businesses of various sizes and with traditional corporate structures.

Each of them have a common need – planning for the future by either growing their own talent or by identifying and addressing their weaknesses them by finding the right professionals to strengthen their businesses.

This means active succession planning, which sounds muck easier than it actually is.

I am not fond of the series titled “for Dummies” but some of these books do a credible job at simplifying the approaches needed to address the topic. This is one of them.

The book is in 5 main sections

1. What Is a Succession Plan, and Why Do You Need One?
2. Creating a Plan and Putting It into Action
3. Diving Deeper into Succession Planning
4. Keeping the Succession Ball Rolling
5. The Part of Tens

Each of these parts begins with a disarming but pertinent cartoon by Rich Tennant, which add to the relaxed atmosphere of the book itself. Early into the first chapter, the author asks a key question, where we are asked to consider what might happen without a succession plan. He answers that in a very concise way:

Succession planning plays a role in extending a family business into the next generation by resolving issues of responsibility and authority needed to succeed. It can allow a business to pass from one group to another in a sale by ensuring the operational, marketing, and financial and people services are maintained.

Succession planning requires flexibility, timing and a commitment to process. This book provides tangible tools and resources, while acknowledging some of the more intangible but very real emotional characteristics of change

Dr. Arnie Dahlke, the author, has both academic, business and experience credentials to justify his messages and the book offers a guide, using clear and succinct techniques.

I liked the “Where to Go from Here” at the end of the introduction, which summarizes the need and background for planning.

Succession planning often requires more than reading a book due to the very involved details of transition, but this is an excellent resource

Dr. John Hogan CHE CHA CMHS
HospitalityEducators
Hogan Hospitality

Success in hotels and hospitality does not come by accident or chance.

We can help

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HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 2,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for our programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of HospitalityEducators.com , which has more than 2000 resource pages and has become the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers. He is also the Principal of HoganHospitality.com, which offers hotel expert witness services and hospitality consulting.

Contact us for assistance – John.Hogan@HospitalityEducators.com 602-799-5375 HoganHospitality.com : john@hoganhospitality.com

KEYS TO SUCCESS™ is the umbrella title for our programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™, THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™ and Principles for Success.

Reflections: People Who Made a Difference: Brian Broom, CHA English Hotelier Extraordinaire

Reflections

Brian Broom, CHA, English Hotelier Extraordinaire

My first interaction with Brian came in the late 1970s after a massive hotel fire in Atlanta.  The entire hotel of 400 suites and rooms, 30 conference rooms, two large ballrooms, two restaurants and what had been the number one disco in Atlanta were completely shut down.  While the hotel staff and management received national recognition the following year for its well trained response to the fire, the experience was an eye-opening one for me as the resident manager in rebuilding the facility and the hotel’s reputation.

Based in New England, Brian worked with Dunfey Hotels and many other national companies . Brian was a master project manager with great vision and stamina.  While it might seem simple enough to have had a generous insurance reimbursement, planning from scratch is not nearly as simple as that sounds.  In a period before “ just in time delivery” options and computer simulations, Brian taught and delivered advance planning, intricate and coordinated deliveries and trade construction, with extensive content in quality checklists.  The entire hotel was completely renovated and reopened less than six months after the devastating fire.

Over an eight month period,  Brian shared design insights with the hotel ownership, management, staff  and the insurance company that included his gift of conceptualization at a time far in advance of those shared today on Restaurant Impossible, Hotel Impossible and many other cable offerings.

Brian had a successful career as a consultant, management company owner, designer and entrepreneur.  Brian and his spouse Sheila worked together on many renovations and  projects over a 15 year period with me and others across the US.

The descriptor of the English Hotelier Extraordinaire is used and because Brian used his English perspectives to focus on delighting guests. He was known for using space creatively and efficiently, in operating hotels profitably and for fair business practices.

Time and circumstances intervened and we lost touch. It remains a regret to me that we did not reconnect, as he passed away in that time.   I always found Brian’s standards to be of the highest quality,  his integrity was front and center and I learned a great deal from this consummate professional.

Think back a moment on people who have impacted you and your career – it is worth the time for reflection.

Success in hotels and hospitality does not come by accident or chance.

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HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 2,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for our programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of HospitalityEducators.com , which has more than 2000 resource pages and has become the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers. He is also the Principal of HoganHospitality.com, which offers hotel expert witness services and hospitality consulting.

Contact us for assistance – John.Hogan@HospitalityEducators.com 602-799-5375 HoganHospitality.com : john@hoganhospitality.com

KEYS TO SUCCESS™ is the umbrella title for our programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™, THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™ and Principles for Success.

Johnny Appleseed Day – A Forerunner to Attentiveness to Sustainability

Johnny Appleseed Day

When : March 11th and/or September 26th. Why two dates?……read on

Johnny Appleseed Day honors one of America’s great legends. Johnny Appleseed was a real person. John Chapman was among the American settlers who were captivated by the movement west across the continent. As Johnny Appleseed travelled west, he planted apple trees along the way, and sold trees to settlers. With every apple tree that was planted, the legend grew.

A Little About the Legend:

• John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) was born on September 26, 1774.
• He was a nurseryman who started out planting trees in western New York and Pennsylvania.
• During the life of John Chapman, the “West” was places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois.
• John Chapman was a deeply religious person He was known to preach during his travels.
• According to legend, Johny Appleseed led a simple life and wanted little. He rarely accepted money and often donated any money he received.
• It is believed that he died on March 11, 1845, from what was referred to as the “winter plague”. The actual date of his death has been disputed.

There is a lot of “legend” in stories written about Johny Appleseed. By it’s definition, over the years, legends grow bigger than life. It also appears that there is some link between Johny Appleseed and very early Arbor Day celebrations.

Celebrate today with an apple rich menu. Include fresh apples for snacks, and some applesauce or apple pie for dessert. And, make plans to plant an apple tree.

Origin of “Johnny Appleseed Day”:

There is plenty of documentation to support claims for Johnny Appleseed Day on March 11th and on September 26th. We found no one who claims to have created this special day.

So, here’s the skinny on the two dates:

• John Chapman was born on September 26, 1774. This date is undisputed.
• It is believed he died on March 11, 1845. However, his date was not formally recorded and the date of death is disputed.

Here is how we come out on the debate: This day should be celebrated on the day of his birth. His birth date is undisputed. His birthday coincides with the season of the apple harvest. A birth is a more positive day than a death.  We think Johnny would agree.

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There are 100+ resources on sustainability and green hotels on our site.

Success does not come by accident or chance.

Contact us for assistance.

John.Hogan@HospitalityEducators.com or 602-799-5375

HospitalityEducators.com was created to help hospitality businesses address problems via a training and information resource site to help you increase your Hotel’s revenue, market share and profitability.  With more than 1,000 pages of tips, guides, best practices, strategies, plans, budgets, videos and resources, HospitalityEducators.com is the #1 independent website for hotel owners and managers.  This site can help you solve your problems now!      Read More  

KEYS TO SUCCESS  is the umbrella title for my 2011-2012 programs, hospitality services and columns. This year’s writings focus on a variety of topics for hotel owners, managers and professionals including both my “HOW TO” articles, HOSPITALITY CONVERSATIONS™, Lessons from the Field™, Hotel Common Sense™ , THE P-A-R PRINCIPLE™  and Principles for Success.

Feel free to share an idea for a column at john.hogan@hospitalityeducators.com   anytime or contact me regarding consulting, customized workshops, speaking engagements … And remember – we all need a regular dose of common sense,

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John Hogan is a successful hospitality executive, educator, author and consultant and is a frequent keynote speaker and seminar leader at many hospitality industry events. He is CEO and Co-Founder of www.HospitalityEducators.com , which delivers focused and affordable counsel in solving specific challenges facing hospitality today.
www.HospitalityEducators.com  is a membership site offering a wide range of information, forms, best practices and ideas designed to help individual hoteliers and hospitality businesses improve their market penetration, deliver service excellence and increase their profitability.

www.HoganHospitality.com
Your Hospitality Resource for the Hotel Owner, Innkeeper, Manager and Hospitality Industry Associations.

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How to Celebrate:

Here are some suggestions for celebrating the day:

• Help your neighbors in some way.
• Offer a smile and friendly hello to your neighbor
• Have your neighbor over for a meal
• Hold a block party
• Get to know your neighbor a little better

Recommended Reading from HospitalityEducators.com| The Stories Of The Men And Women Lost On September 11

By Dr. John Hogan, CHA CMHS CHE
September 10, 2012

American Lives: The Stories Of The Men And Women Lost On September 11

I have had this book for over a year now – I found it at a used book sale. I almost passed it by, but was genuinely moved by the collection of personal stories complied by the staff of Newsday and the Tribune Company.   If you choose to pass on the book, I understand – it is not easy to keep returning to such a memory, but I strongly recommend you read the brief collection of thoughts below.

The book is only 200 pages in a slightly oversize format.  The five sections are to the point:

Little Brother, You’re MVP in our hearts, and as sub-sections includes
1. last phone calls
2. love stories
3. FDNY and
4. lost promises

The first into heaven
5. they died together
6. rescuers
7. mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
8. on the planes

A Husband is Missing No More
9. High Finance
10. New Americans
11. In the Pentagon

A Man of Unusual Disposition
12. free spirits
13. tower people
14. legacies

The List of the Lost
World Trade Center Occupants
Pentagon
Emergency/Rescue Personnel
American Airline Flight #11 -WTC North Tower
United Airliners Flight #175 -WTC South Tower
American Airlines Flight # 77 – Pentagon
United Airlines Flight #93 – Pennsylvania

9-11 marked the first time the USA had been successfully attacked on its own soil in an undeclared war by terrorists and it changed the country forever in many ways. Innocent civilians of all religions, professions, ages and activities were affected in ways not imagined before. 

This is a mini-biography of some of the women and men who lost their lives on that day.  Some of what really moved me were the titles in the stories.  You will understand without even reading the full story:

• Robert, there’s another plane coming
• Dad, I gotta go. There’s smoke in here now
• Take care of my kids
• She still lives in his dreams
• She opened up his world
• A recovered ring completes a circle of life
• He made every day a party
• That day, she learned she was pregnant
• After 20 years, they still held hands
• A hero by any definition
• He ignored his own order to flee
• Firefighting was all he talked about
• He dreamed of a school for autistic kids
• She beat Hodgkin’s and eased others pains
• Her family’s first college graduate
• Death in a place of prayer
• They knew what was important
• She kept going back in
• A rescuer who wouldn’t be stopped
• A coach who brought out kid’s potential
• Her husband watched her disappear
• She tried to block the cockpit
• The man who said “let’s roll”
• He stayed to check on an elderly colleague
• A cool army vet who helped others evacuate
• He saved his wife, but not himself
• A son is born as a father is mourned
• and probably 200 more headings and stories
  

9-11 marked the first time the USA had been successfully attacked on its own soil in an undeclared war by terrorists and it changed the country forever in many ways. Innocent civilians of all religions, professions, ages ad activities were affected in ways not imagined before.

 My team and I were delivering a workshop out of state on that day, and the 100% closing of all airports, some roads, many government and business centers was an eerie sensation for the week that followed. In the years since that day, on those times when I am interacting with groups and others on September 11th, I make sure we take that moment of silence to remember and reflect.

I encourage you to watch the following You Tube

When the World Stopped Turning: A 9/11 tribute

Remember and Reflect

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