article thumbnail

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. Still, this was a contributing factor to Southwest’s fall and worth noting, when much of the airline’s success came from bucking common industry trends.

Airlines 188
article thumbnail

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. Still, this was a contributing factor to Southwest’s fall and worth noting, when much of the airline’s success came from bucking common industry trends.

Airlines 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Six Weeks of U.S. Stock Market Decline: Now What?

Coaching Tip

The market's last seven-week stretch of losses began in May 2001, as the dot-com bubble deflated," reports The Associated Press. As for why stocks are falling, most observers agree: Blame "weaker hiring, industrial output, and a moribund housing market." unemployment benefit applications had been trending down/flattening.

article thumbnail

The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001.

Career 110
article thumbnail

Corporate Recruiters Rank Communication as the Most Highly Valued Business Skill

leaderCommunicator

The annual survey by this well-respected group gauges the demand for MBA graduates among Fortune 100 companies and offers insight into hiring practices and trends across industries and world regions. That happened this year when the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released its Corporate Recruiters Survey report.

Skills 164
article thumbnail

The Rise Of The On-Demand Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers. Indeed, they argue that little has really changed since Pink made his prediction all those years ago.

Agility 96
article thumbnail

How Language Can Help CEO Successions Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

The first of these is when the stock market reacts badly to the appointment, while the second is if the previous CEO remains at the company as the chair of the board. Similarly, if the CEO engaged in a degree of self-promotion, they were found to mitigate the impact of a poor reaction from the stock market. No silver bullet.

CEO 52