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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. 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. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. 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. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines. Great examples of Blue Ocean companies are Apple and Netflix. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x The problem is leadership on autopilot. The problem is leadership on autopilot. Rethinking Leadership.

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. Fullan describes these as ‘arational’ factors and provides several examples, such as: Strategy and operations are not always fully integrated.

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Will Aetna CEO Transform Healthcare (and CEO Leadership While He’s at it)?

Michael Lee Stallard

Bertolini’s dedication to the cause of reforming healthcare and actions as CEO make him a clear example of a servant leader. Servant Leadership Defined. The term “servant leadership” has been around since Robert Greenleaf coined it in 1970. In 2001, Bertolini’s son was diagnosed with incurable lymphoma. Generic License.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. For example, at No.2 Some other posts you may enjoy: A Revealing Look at One of The Dirty Words in Business Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #14 – Matthew E.