Audio Links:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPX
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id157359638
Nicole Schmidt is the CEO of Source and a rare leader who has seen the built environment from every angle, with a career that spans interior architecture, hospitality and housing design, and sales. She is a DJC Women of Vision Industry Member Award recipient and a finalist for Oregon Entrepreneur of the Year. She has also grown her company through acquisitions, including the recent addition of Project Dynamics. Nicole is a newly minted American citizen, and she runs a remote team with the kind of intention most companies only put on a poster.
Takeaways:
Write core values that repel as much as they attract. If nobody reads them and thinks “that’s not for me,” they are too vague to guide anything.
Build your values into everything. Hiring questions, performance reviews, SOPs, and even the P&L should all point back to what you say you believe.
Don’t reinvent the wheel. Borrow proven frameworks, then put your own spin on them so they fit your culture.
When you acquire a company, blend cultures instead of slamming them together. Get curious about what made the other team successful and protect it.
Stop waiting for permission. If an idea is good and everyone already agrees on it, someone would have done it by now.
Reach out to Dan on LinkedIn or hit reply on the Substack to share what you’re working on.
“I have not in my life found a brick wall I could not run through.” - Nicole Schmidt
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Connect with Nicole:
Guest’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-schmidt-7420516/
Guests Website: https://tothesource.com/
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