The breezeway outside my hotel feels nice as I wait for my ride to the event I'm speaking at here in Memphis. It's such a beautiful day I decide to go out a little early and sit on a bench in the shade. In 20 minutes I must have had 7 or 8 hotel staff do something remarkable. They were walking by my bench but took time to look at me, make eye contact, introduce themselves, welcome me to the Marriott, ask if I needed a ride, and even ask if they could get me a bottled water. I'd been at the hotel only a few hours and knew that this was an amazing team of people who must have an amazing leader. So I asked Ray, one of the remarkable bellmen, "who's the GM here?" "Mr. Lawrence," he replied. "Doug Lawrence."

So I asked to speak with Doug and relayed my story about being here only a few hours but getting the "special treatment" that I observed others getting even as Doug and I were speaking. I assured him that I traveled a lot, stayed in many big, boring, hotels and couldn't help but let him know how impressed I was with his team's remarkable "show" from Ramona at the front desk to a couple of unnamed maintenence men planting flowers while laughing and talking with me and other guests.
Kudos to Doug & his team at The Memphis Marriott...I noticed.

Best Performance in 2 Years...is the headline in my Business section of the paper this morning. "Despite worries about relatively high gas prices and rising interest rates, consumers shopped with gusto last month, pushing sales to a two-year high." A 6.6% increase in April.
Cool news. By the way, if you haven't read it, in his book DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH Michael Treacy shares some interesting insights into how UNCOMMON companies grow BIGGER than the average bear.
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