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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. They ceased all advertising. There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. It did not matter to their executives.

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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies. While Twitter is experiencing more root-and-branch, as well as chaotic, activity, advertisers are still avoiding that platform (even if it is just temporarily). What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. They ceased all advertising. There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. It did not matter to their executives.

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10 Disability-Supported Job Boards That Can Make Your Search Easier

HR Digest

Disabled employees are turning to disability job boards to find work more suited to them, making it important for employers to also be aware of where they can advertise available roles. With the greater number of work-from-home jobs and the rising diversity initiatives by companies , job seekers appear more optimistic about finding work.

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Women’s Leadership Requires Teaching, Honoring and Defending Women in the Workplace

Women on Business

She has been referred to as the woman who broke the glass ceiling in the advertising industry as the first female vice president at a major ad agency, JWT. Bush’s administration as the Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy between 2001 and 2003. If you’re not familiar with Charlotte Beers, you should be.

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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

Coaching Tip

In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. By 2002, when I began advertising with Google, the company had become very profitable, thanks to a novel program called AdWords, in which advertisers bid to display their ads whenever the user searches for keywords.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 3: The Dark Side of Bootstrapping

Strategy Driven

Advertising revenues were slow to trickle in. Many of the big real estate holders were not allowed to spend a dime on advertising, even though corporations were spending millions just to maintain their surplus real estate. Selling display advertising to non-real estate advertisers also proved to be extremely challenging.