Laura Anderson was looking for something unconventional for an organizational retreat she was planning for about 60 loan processing, collections, and customer-service personnel and other staff at Wells Fargo & Co.'s Phoenix-based operations...
Kerry Connolly and Melissa Giordano had seen enough depressing news in their jobs as anchor and associate director for the CBS morning show in Boston. Sitting around over coffee in the early morning hours in March 2005, they decided to offer...
The October issue of CMI incorrectly reported that Turtle Bay Resort had been acquired by Associated Luxury Hotels. ALH is a membership organization that has national sales responsibilities for its members. Turtle Bay Resort has joined Associated...
In 25 Years As a meeting planner, Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, has seen it all. Although best known as a Latin America specialist, she has held programs in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East, as well as in the United States and Canada. She...
Setting boundaries doesn't always come naturally to Mary Pat Cornett, CMP, managing director of meetings, conventions, and travel for the Alexandria, Va.; based American Diabetes Association. When she first went back to work as a meetings directo...
Many of the Greatest concepts that flowed from Intel Corp. over the past quarter century can be traced, in some way, back to the mind of Andrew S. Grove. Who would have guessed that the inspiration for effective meetings was among them...
In 1981, armed with a loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration and a little office equipped with a folding table, a chair, and a telephone, Patti Roscoe launched the destination management company that would set a benchmark for the...
I recently had a conversation with a concerned friend, an entrepreneur who owns a multimillion-dollar manufacturing company in New England. Since he bought the company two years ago, orders have gone through the roof, and revenue is way up — but...
