“What do you think we should do?” It’s a question that has guided hotel heir Bill Marriott Jr. as he led his family’s business, Marriott International Inc., for half a century. Marriott’s most valuable lesson on leadership came on a December evening in 1954 during a brief chat with President Dwight Eisenhower. The President was visiting the Marriott family farm and trying to decide whether to venture out hunting on a cold day. “He looked at me and he said ‘What do you think we should do, Bill?’ Marriott recalls “‘I just said ‘Wow.’ I said, ‘It’s cold out there, let’s stay inside.'” It was a simple query, but carried a lesson that Marriot has never forgotten.
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