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John Willard "Bill" Marriott Jr. (born March 25, 1932) is an American businessman who is the Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Marriott International. ==Biography== Marriott is the son of Alice and J. Willard Marriott, the founder of Marriott International. He attended St. Albans School in Washington, DC, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Utah, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He served on an aircraft carrier as an officer in the United States Navy Supply Corps.〔 He is also an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Distinguished Eagle Scouts )〕 Marriott has described how he learned a lifelong management lesson from an offhand remark made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he and his wife, Mamie, were guests at the house of Marriott's father in 1954. When Eisenhower was given the option to either go outside and shoot quail in the cold or stand by the fire, he turned to 22-year-old Bill Marriott and simply asked, "What do you think we should do?" Says Marriott, "So I tried to adopt that style of management as I progressed in life by asking my people, 'What do you think?'...The four most important words in the English language are, 'What do you think?' " Marriott joined the Marriott Corporation in 1956, was elected Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors in January 1964 and president of the company in November 1964, Chief Executive Officer in 1972, and Chairman of the Board in 1985. During his tenure at Marriott, Bill introduced the practice of Revenue Management to the hotel industry. Marriott is actively involved in various boards and councils including, the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotional Advisory Board, the executive committee of the World Travel & Tourism Council, the National Business Council, the board of trustees of the National Urban League, a director of the National Geographic Society, and a director of the Naval Academy Endowment Trust. He serves as chairman of the President's Export Council, a group that advises the President on matters relating to export trade, and serves as chairman of the Leadership Council of the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries. He is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In an episode of 60 Minutes aired on April 7, 1996, Marriott was interviewed regarding his faith by Mike Wallace. The episode also included interviews with football star Steve Young and church leader Gordon B. Hinckley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】60 Minutes ">publisher= CBS News )〕 In 1997 Marriott was called by the church to be an Area Authority Seventy and member of the Fifth Quorum of Seventy. This was split in 2004 and Marriott joined the newly created Sixth Quorum of the Seventy, serving until his release on October 1, 2011.〔(Releases Announced for Church Leaders )〕 On May 4, 2006, Marriott received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Weber State University during the university's 127th commencement. He also delivered the commencement address during those proceedings. Marriott's book ''The Spirit To Serve'' (1997),〔Marriott, JW, (2001) ''The Spirit To Serve: Marriott's Way'' (New York: HarperCollins) ISBN 978-0-06-662114-2.〕 ghost written by Kathi Ann Brown and with a foreword by James C. Collins, is a personal view of the rise of the Marriott Company and outlines principles of business success. Marriott received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award in 2010 from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of programs that provided language instruction to both non-English speaking and English speaking employees of Marriott Corporation and of training opportunities provided to young people entering the hospitality industry around the globe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nectfl.org/awards-james-w-dodge-foreign-language-advocate-award )〕 On December 13, 2011, Marriott announced that he would assume the role of Executive Chairman of the company and relinquish the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective March 31, 2012, to Arne Sorenson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Marriott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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