Success, at anything, is hard work. The problem is that, in today’s culture, that kind of work isn’t sexy or cool. It’s just hard.
· Big or little,
· Success is hard.
· Working together
· Is the way to succeed.
The Mirage was opened to rave reviews and much acclaim. By all accounts, it was successful. But as I look back on the nearly 3 years of our planning and working on that opening, it’s fair to say it was a collection of problems solved. That many square feet, that many rooms, that many palm trees, that many different integrated resort elements, that many employees, that many restaurants, that Volcano, and so much more: nothing in any of those was simple or easy. Mostly because nobody’d ever tried to do all of them together before. But we approached every one of those complex problems as challenges to be overcome and solve… and that made it seem manageable. We put our heads together and addressed each of those smaller pieces of the overall problems and collectively and collaboratively worked our way through them all. We supported each other. And learned the universal truth that the only way to be successful at anything is to work together. And that is still true today.
Ieoh Ming (I. M.) Pei (1917 – 2019): Chinese American architect – read about him here:
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