Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The board of an airline hires a CEO — and then cancels his contract after just three years. British Petroleum: The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, in April 2010, resulted in a massive crisis for BP and its partners. Five big companies. Five big problems.

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Company Airlines Offshoring PR 16

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Economywide ROIC has trended downward since the 1980s, falling from above 6% in the mid-1960s to 5% in 1980, then to 3% in 1990, and to only a bit more than 1% by 2010. Senior executives in even chronically low-performing sectors (such as airlines) can be successful and well-remunerated.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Malaysian authorities’ initial failure to track and recover Flight 370 shows how a lack of outside help can impede solutions during a crisis. National and airline leaders weren’t able to adjust to the fluid and complex situation by engaging external resources in the critical first hours and days after the plane’s disappearance.

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CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Innovation vs. Regulation. This is a stifling tax on a company’s capacity to find creative approaches to solving unmet customers’ needs.

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Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In a survey conducted by IBM in 2010 with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide, 80% of leaders anticipated greater complexity in the future, but fewer than half of them felt confident to deal with that complexity. The business environment today has indeed become mindboggling complex due to accelerating globalization and rapid technology changes.

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Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. And in 2010, the servant-leadership scholar position was started.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. And in 2010, the servant-leadership scholar position was started.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The burgeoning Ebola crisis hit home for Americans the other week with the death of a Liberian man in Dallas. Relying on the crowd and building more networks among those pulled into the Ebola crisis will add more flexibility and innovation to the existing bureaucratic response. Crisis management Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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