The Excellence in Club Management Awards Dinner held at the Music City’s Nashville City Club was filled with tributes to the exemplary leadership and achievements of the 2018 honorees.
When Fake News Gets Real
While you might think the club world is insulated from the search for “stories” that can prime the pump of sensationalism, it’s not hard to find examples that show we’re not immune to the fake news cycle.
Editor’s Memo – By Many Other Names
It might be worth looking into arranging to take a group of members to clubs built around concepts and activities like race-track driving or archery or poker, rather than another excursion to a golf or tennis property. New club concepts and reports of popular new activities continue to pop up by the day, it seems, and they all bear taking note…
History Lessons
The follow-up to a tragic fatal accident revealed lessons about not only what a club should have done to prevent it , but also to avoid citations, fine and additional damaging publicity after it occurred. Earlier this year, a member of the course maintenance staff at an Ohio club suffered fatal injuries when the mower…
Harbor Communications, Publisher of C&RB, Merges with WTWH Media, LLC
The parent company of Club & Resort Business and the Chef to Chef magazine and conference has joined forces with the Cleveland, Ohio-based business-to-business media company that is an eight-time Inc. 5000 honoree. Harbor Communications, a business-to-business (b2b) media company focused on the club and resort, foodservice, convenience store and petroleum industries, has merged with…
Harbor Communications, Publisher of C&RB, Merges with WTWH Media, LLC
The parent company of Club & Resort Business and the Chef to Chef magazine and conference has joined forces with the Cleveland, Ohio-based business-to-business media company that is an eight-time Inc. 5000 honoree. Harbor Communications, a business-to-business (b2b) media company focused on the club and resort, foodservice, convenience store and petroleum industries, has merged with…
Bad Taste
The torrent of instant and snarky responses to what was a well-intended and fairly innocent message from Trump National GC Hudson Valley, even if it was greatly exaggerated because of who the sender was, serves as another cautionary tale for online and social-media strategies. Ten years ago, the humor publication The Onion ran one of…
Pay Attention
A troubling new trend has newspapers and business journals combing through private clubs’ tax filings to find material for easy, hard-to-resist stories they can publish on clubs’ revenues—and on what individual club managers are paid. When online publications go fishing with “click bait” (which helps them reel in readers, and thus advertising), they’re no different…
Good Breeding
The new language some club managers are using today shouldn’t detract from or diminish the real and lasting impact they are having on successfully positioning their clubs, and our industry, for future success. If you’re spending a lot of time right now focusing on issues related to your club’s “culture,” I hate to break it…
Magical Evening
The 2016 recipients of the Excellence in Club Management (ECM) Awards, co-sponsored by Club & Resort Business and the McMahon Group, were honored during a reception featuring roaming magicians, dinner and a ceremony.
Golfing on Mars
Iceland is a mostly desolate, treeless, lava field where absolutely nothing is growing. Other parts are a little more physically hospitable, but mostly, it’s Mars. But here is the shocker: Golf is the number-one sport in Iceland.
Elite Company
On February 7th at The Country Club of Orlando (Fla.), the 2013 recipients of the Excellence in Club Management (ECM) Awards, co-sponsored by Club & Resort Business and the McMahon Group, were honored during a special reception, dinner and ceremony held in conjunction with the Club Managers Association of America’s annual conference.
Thought for Food
Club dining is no longer simply a matter of convenience (or food minimums); it’s a matter of choice and preference. Members love it—and membership directors sell it.
The 21st Century Club
Our 21st Century Club series will examine the five key factors that now stand to separate the winners from the losers among those properties that remain. Print remains a viable medium in the digital world for a variety of reasons, including its portability; the comfort factor of holding a magazine, book or newspaper in…
“Embedded” and Under Fire
My last semi-relevant experience, I stressed, was dropping fries at McDonald’s while in college 40 years ago.