{"id":19662,"date":"2017-04-26T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=19662"},"modified":"2019-10-25T06:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:37:02","slug":"quote-of-the-day-813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-813\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/murrens-head-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/murrens-head-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/murrens-head-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/murrens-head.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>&#8220;<strong>MGM Resorts<\/strong>\u00a0resulted from the merger of <strong>MGM Grand<\/strong> and <strong>Mirage Resorts<\/strong>. After the merger, the two organizations continued\u00a0to operate separately, with two COOs and two separate cultures. Multiple properties competed against each other. There was no unified strategy for growth\u2014and no way to implement one even if it existed.&#8221; &#8212; <em>MGM CEO <strong>Jim Murren<\/strong> throwing shade on predecessor <strong>J. Terrence Lanni<\/strong>\u00a0and his silo-driven leadership style, during a lecture at <strong>The Wharton School<\/strong> (<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s alma mater!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;MGM Resorts\u00a0resulted from the merger of MGM Grand and Mirage Resorts. After the merger, the two organizations continued\u00a0to operate separately, with two COOs and two separate cultures. Multiple properties competed against each other. There was no unified strategy for growth\u2014and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-813\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25195,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}