Via Mike
Many decades ago, when I was attending a prestigious northern
business school, we were honored to have Kemmons Wilson, founder of the
Holiday Inns in Memphis, TN come talk to us.
The idea of Holiday Inns was initiated by him, he said, on a family
vacation while driving with all five children to Washington, DC.
Outraged at being charged extra for each child at every roadside lodging where the family stayed, not to mention the cramped, uncomfortable accommodations, Kemmons decided to reinvent the lodging industry. His idea was to build 400 motels across the country, each within a day’s drive of the next. Kemmons measured every nook and cranny of every room where the family stayed. He took a simple idea, kept it simple, and made it work.
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