First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Slywotzky with Karl Weber Crown Business (2011) How to create a demand-creating culture Many books published in recent years offer excellent advice on how to create and then sustain what I call a hyphenated culture: quality-driven, customer-driven, innovation-driven, results-driven, etc.

Slywotzky 70

Slywotzky Books Review Quality 70

Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. The Business Travel Diva’s Rules for Family Vacations (Section 1: Pre-Flight Checklist) 1. Under no circumstances will luggage be checked.

Travel 232

Travel Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 232

The Recovering Engineer

MAY 31, 2010

As we waited, I saw several people get really agitated with Delta Airlines. As is often the case in group conversations like the one we had in Detroit, the roughly forty of us that were waiting together shared conversation, but we didn’t get very personal. But, was it really that big of a deal?

Emotional Intelligence 102

Emotional Intelligence Engineering Self-aware FAQ 102

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

For Southwest Airlines, it was about how they could maintain the current schedule with fewer planes. Using these whitepapers, youll learn how to create a performance measurement system that drives superior performance by aligning managerial decisions and employee actions with your corporate strategy. Keep it simple.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Prepare in advance to withstand inevitable disappointments: have creative distractions, friends who know how to soothe, a planned break, and a solid plan B. Design stems from USE. Practice frugality.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As facilitator, consultant, and coach she shapes and builds corporate competencies for major corporations such as General Motors, MB Financial, and United Airlines. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

Strategy 70

Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ruth Simon at the Wall Street Journal reports that the expected median salary for newly hired MBAs was essentially flat between 2008 and 2011. Airline Lost Your Luggage? Many newly-minted MBAs are finding that the return on investment from a graduate degree may not be panning out quite as expected. from 2007-08.

Lewin 8

Lewin Simon Licensing Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! If you don’t give your customers the courtesy of taking the time to provide them with excellent service, they are not going to take the time to tell you how to improve your business. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

When a new employee is hired under this typical scenario and shows up the first day, the company tells her what work needs to be done and shows her how to act. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Our recent research has focused on new hires and how firms can use the onboarding process to encourage authentic self-expression.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They didn't treat the internet seriously, or if they did, they didn't know how to formulate a strategy once they had moved to the net. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The 9/11 terrorist attacks; the Mumbai, Bali, and London Tube bombings; the attempted bombing of a Delta airlines flight in December 2009; and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of the personal magnetism of Oussama Bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda cause.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? They don’t know how to cope. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. For every 1-cent reduction in the cost of jet fuel, the airlines save $170 million.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Built on Values shows exactly how to organize your culture to make that happen. She was one of the five founding executives of JetBlue Airways; Chief People Officer for Southwest Airlines; and Executive Vice President of Team Services at Doubletree and Promus Hotel Corporations. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Environment 70

Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

To compare the iPhone to any other phone is like comparing an airliner to a tricycle. Ask any of my friends: I can't shut up about how great the iPhone (and all the other Apple products) perform. So figure out how to deliver amazement. Looking back now I realize my hate-affair with computers began right then and there.

Travel 58

Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

With the passing of the torch at Apple from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook, the entire business world is wondering whether Apple can keep up the stellar performance of the second reign (1997-2011) of King Jobs or if this spells the end of its great run. airline to make a buck over the last four decades. Sounds a lot like Jobs.

Airlines 8

Airlines Succession Creativity Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Consider the harrowing events after the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July 6th 2013. The injured streamed into San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center by the dozens. Establishing a better baseline can help medical facilities of all kinds prevent errors.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Southwest Airlines was able to succeed where predecessor People Express was not by knowing exactly which aspects of their unique operating model were critical to its success, and by scaling only as fast as mainly the model would allow. They resist putting the cart of scale before the horse of competence.

Parcell 11

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Southwest Airline’s Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, described the unconventional leadership that made Southwest an airline industry dynamo. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). A book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results.

Books 113

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2011

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2011: Giving Constructive Feedback : Eight Leadership Essentials by @LisaPetrilli. michaelaroberto : On its 40th anniversary, Southwest Airlines offers 40 lessons on its success. ScottEblin: New: Conan O’Brien Explains How to Make Lemonade Out of Lemons. Must-read stuff! by @DPForrester.

Self-aware 225

Self-aware Storytelling Library Airlines 225