My Dad Skipped My Wedding for a Golf Tournament. Three Years Later, My Hotel Chain Hit $110 Million. He Texted: “Family Dinner. Important Discussion.” I Showed Up With My Lawyer.

to being treated as optional is to become impossible to ignore.

So I worked.

I had been in hotel management for four years by then, working my way through operations at a mid-size boutique chain in the Northeast, learning the business from the underside the way you learn something when you intend to own it eventually. I understood yield management and continue reading …