310: Why you need smarts, people, and humor with Jon Taffer

In this episode, Jon shares why you need to constantly strive to be the smartest person in the room, how knowledge is nothing if you can't exercise it through people, how you need to always leave room for humor, and why you need to embrace change and accepting new technologies. With nearly three decades of hands-on experience, Jon Taffer is an award-winning hospitality expert, best-selling author, highly respected management guru and top-rated television personality. His renowned method of management has become the industry gold standard, saving literally thousands of bars and restaurants as proven weekly on his Spike TV series "Bar Rescue." Taffer is one of only six inductees into the Nightclub Hall of Fame, and also holds such distinctions as "Pub Master" in the United Kingdom with multiple honors as "Operator of the Year" and "Property of the Year." In addition, Taffer is a coveted keynote speaker at major industry conventions and events.