Leadership, Culture, and the Biggest Risk Leaders Face – Chet Pipkin, Desolation Hotel
Description
Chet Pipkin built Belkin into a billion-dollar global company, and today, he’s applying those same leadership principles in hospitality through Desolation Hotel in Lake Tahoe. In this conversation, he shares how his leadership philosophy has evolved and why empowering people at every level is essential to organizational health. At the end, Chet also reveals what he sees as the biggest risk leaders face as their organizations grow—and how to overcome it.
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