June 2009

Memory Lane Monday: Surprise Potty

by Susan on June 29, 2009

The first hotel that hired me was, uh, modest. I mean, to me it was the freaking Plaza, but looking back it wasn’t that fab. Luckily, I knew nothing about hotels at that point, so I was totally convinced that I was selling the best product imaginable. I was like the love child of a [...]

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When I started out in business, I was much younger than most of my colleagues. Rather than take advantage of that by playing it up, asking for help, and thus developing life-long mentors, I just pretended like I knew everything and then worked my a$$ off trying to figure it out. This strategy was flawed [...]

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Surprise Bonus Post!

by Susan on June 26, 2009

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Memory Lane Monday: On Memory

by Susan on June 15, 2009

I have a really good memory. I think it’s because I sleep so much. I can remember what I wore on the first day of school in 1992. I know exactly what the air felt like when my mother shocked the hell out of us by jumping into a swimming pool and doing laps, when [...]

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