Earlier this month, Hotel
Equities announced a joint venture agreement had been signed with Alliance
Hospitality, a well-respected and highly successful lodging company based in
Raleigh, NC. As the Head Coach of the newly expanded Hotel Equities
organization, I welcome the opportunity for growth as leaders from both firms
come together as one to create a powerful hotel industry platform and a dynamic
hospitality leadership team.
I am reminded of a quote by NBA
coach Phil Jackson, who won 11 NBA titles while coaching the Chicago Bulls and
the Los Angeles Lakers. “The strength of the team is each individual
member. The strength of each member is the team.”
As we grow our organization and expand our platform, it is
vitally important that we get this right … that we come to recognize that we
need each other in order to reach our full potential. We each have gifts and
talents that can be complimentary of one another. We should not feel threatened
by the strengths of others, but should instead encourage, embrace and support
them. We must trust each other to do the right thing, to look out after each
other and to have each other’s back, for the sake of the team.
As with most accomplishments of any significance, winning
does not come easy. However, when great talents come together with a true
desire and focus to accomplish extraordinary things, momentum and excitement
occur and everyone wins in a huge way.
Our future success, in a sense, is our Championship, our
Super Bowl or our World Series victory.
Lou Holtz, one of the most successful coaches in college
football history once was asked by a sports reporter if he considered his
team lucky, since they had just completed a lengthy winning streak. His
response was, in my opinion, profound. He said, “Sure I’ll agree that we have
been lucky so long as you define luck as when preparedness meets opportunity”.
We have gathered the talent. We have a tremendous
opportunity before us. Now, let’s make certain we are “lucky” enough to win.
Hospitably,
Fred Cerrone
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