While headlines fixate on frontline staffing crises, a quieter emergency is unfolding. Experienced middle managers are leaving faster than organisations can develop replacements – and the pipeline of willing successors is running dry. The scale of the exodus...
A viral Reddit post this week exposed a management failure masquerading as a policy decision. An employee suffering from a severe headache requested an extension to their sick leave. Their manager's response: share your live location via WhatsApp....
It is 9 AM on a Tuesday in Hyderabad's Financial District. In a glass-walled conference room forty floors above the Deccan plateau, a Global Head of Risk is reviewing a credit algorithm that will determine lending rates for...
Most hospitality executives would consider creating a hotel brand valued at over $2 billion the capstone of a career. Hans Meyer treated it as a warm-up. The Dutch entrepreneur spent years as a founding partner and COO of...
As the industry enters 2026, a fundamental tension is emerging in boardrooms and HR offices across the sector: is technology being deployed to serve people, or to replace them? The question is not new. But the stakes have...
Key Takeaways: The finance-to-hospitality pivot: Seidman spent years at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and a luxury developer overseeing $3.5 billion in projects before deciding he'd rather save abandoned 1950s motels than finance another glass tower The $22.5 million...
Key Takeaways: The journalist-turned-hotelier: Zecha spent 20 years in publishing before entering hospitality at 40 – proving the industry's most influential designer never went to hotel school The $4 million bet banks refused: When lenders rejected a 40-room...
Justin Hemmes, the Chief Executive Officer of the Merivale Group, is less a hotel executive and more an architect of social capital, a profile that directly contradicts the asset-light doctrines favoured by global hospitality majors. His strategy, which...
This Mumbai-born entrepreneur ranks number 1,626 on Forbes' 2025 World Billionaires List with a $2.2 billion net worth. His company, FIVE Holdings, posted AED 2.2 billion in revenue for 2024 with 86.55 per cent occupancy across properties in...
When Ronald Akili needed bricks for his Katamama hotel in 2016, he didn't order from a supplier. The Jakarta-born entrepreneur commissioned an entire Balinese village to hand-press 1.5 million bricks using centuries-old techniques, the same methods used to...
