Paddling the Outrigger: Inspirations and Insights From the Journey of a Lifetime

Dr. Richard R. Kelley Hardcover, 304 pp.  Dr. Richard R. Kelley, fondly known as ‘Doc’ to friends and business associates, led Hawai‘i’s most iconic hotel company, Outrigger Hotels and Resorts, for over four and a half decades. In Paddling the Outrigger, he compellingly recounts his family’s experiences as hospitality pioneers, operating a family run business in the Hawai‘i of “days gone by” to its place as an iconic hotel brand in one of the world’s most coveted vacation destinations. In frank observations, Kelley shares the philosophy of a successful entrepreneur and businessman, conduct- ing business in Hawai‘i and globally, living and working in the most beautiful island archipelago on Earth. Readers interested in old Waikīkī will relish stories of some of the characters who inhabited its history and the life changing recollections of a boy eyewitness to Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Students of hospitality will appreciate Kelley’s storytelling, his inside persp