Name Professor Course Date Leadership Styles Used by Conrad Hilton Conrad Nicholson Hilton was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain (Alef 2009). Hilton was born on 25th December 1887 in the city of San Antonio, New Mexico Territory. His father, Augustus Halvorsen Hilton, was an immigrant from Norway and his mother, Mary Genevieve, was an American of German descent and a devout catholic. He had eight siblings; Eva Hilton, Felice Hilton, Carl Hilton, Rosemary Hilton, Helen Hilton, Julian Hilton, Baron Hilton, and August Hilton (San Angelo LIVE! Magazine 2007). Conrad Hilton attended Gross military which is currently known as New Mexico Military Institute and St. Michael`s College which is currently known as the …show more content…
His key traits were determined, visionary, risk taker, tenacious, dedicated, high energy, caring, conscientious, motivated, persistent, and ambitious. Conrad Hilton recognized the importance of individuals in the realization of success. He took a personal interest in all of his followers by paying attention to their concerns and mentoring them (Alef 2009). He encouraged two-way communications between him and his followers to allow the people to express their views. He tolerated differences among the employees and delegated most of the work to others. This leadership style is important as it takes into consideration individual views of every person and makes the employees feel valued (Eeden et al. 2008). Globalization has led to the establishment of multinational companies that draw their employees from different backgrounds. There is need for leaders to understand their followers and tolerate their differences for the success of the entire team. Hilton also inspired his followers towards the attainment of common goals through a shared vision. He gave the employees a sense of belonging by motivating them to continuously focus on company goals. His wide experience in politics, military, and the entrepreneurial skills that he learned at his father`s store was a great inspiration to his subordinates. The Hilton employees viewed Conrad as a role model due to the high moral standards that he exercised. Hilton
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Traits: 1) He was a great dancer. 2) Wouldn’t shake hands.3) Famous for being tall. 4) Kept himself in good shape. Was athletic. 5) Created a library of 900 volumes. Liked to read.
What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?
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• What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?
Conrad Hilton has an influential characteristics to influence people and became an idol for his time. The reason why people take him as idol is because he was a successful entrepreneurs and also a legislator to global leaders. He bought an unprofitable hotels and turned it into a brilliant hotels. After Hilton used his “magic formula” to control the hotel cost, they earned the margin at the end of the month. Hilton suggested that each hotel have to controlling to its individual costs and increase the profit without interrupt their service towards the
Another trait he had was perseverance. He always worked hard to achieve his goals and get whatever he wants. When his son and mother died,
They also have team members and employees from Asia, and Africa and other nationalities worldwide. The common problem and issues that they have found among new employees are language and cultural differences that are creating barriers when it comes to cooperation. There is also occasional disrespect of ethnicity, colors, and discrimination of white and black. These problems are common with multi-national organizations with a diversity of employees, but Hilton Hotel is committed to developing and maintaining a well-rounded organization to enhance their competitive advantage. They continue to attract diverse workforce to strengthen their value and market leadership using different management strategies to solve these issues.
This analysis delves into the company’s operation management principles to interpret its successful strategies and offer future recommendations.
Hilton Hotels was founded in 1919 by Conrad Hilton. Conrad was always a hard worker; he served on a state legislature board in New Mexico and fought in World War I before ever getting into his hospitality career. Inspired by the advice of his mother, who told him he could do anything, he had big dreams to buy and run his own business. He initially had his sights set on a bank in Texas, but spur of the moment, he bought The Mobley Hotel in Cisco instead. I do not think that Conrad realized how profitable the hotel business could be at the time, but due to an oil boom, the rooms in the hotel were being sold nearly three times a day (unexpected success of business). After seeing the success of his small business, Conrad decided it was time to expand and started buying and building hotels throughout all of Texas and New Mexico, and eventually up into Chicago and New York. He finally formed his own Corporations in 1946 and quickly grew to Hilton International Company by 1948. (About our founder, 2015) This made Hilton the world’s very first hotel chain to go international. The reason Hilton hotels became so successful is because he took advantage of providing the newest technology and updates in each of his
He was very artistic an innovative. It did not please him when he didn’t have the freedom to carry out things his way.