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Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. During mergers and acquisitions it is common for companies, especially the acquired, to experience a dip in operational performance.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

We grow a company when we grow its people. When CEO Sam Palmisano stepped down at the end of 2011, there were several qualified replacements, including Rometty. When we move beyond just developing ourselves to developing others, it signals that we are transitioning from the power of me to the power of we. What doesn’t change?

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Learn How to Pitch Your Company to the Federal Government – Free Webinar

Women on Business

I just learned about a free webinar hosted by American Express OPEN and Women Impacting Public Policy that might be very helpful to some WomenOnBusiness.com readers. In fact, the Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy estimates that the program could benefit approximately 684,000 of these companies.

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Not all use values to guide decisions and behaviors on a daily basis company-wide. It may have been a reorg, downsizing, merger, change of policy. Chris Edmonds presents Power, Profit, or Purpose: What Drives Your Company? Mike Henry Sr.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. The company was to close by February 15, 2018. In fact, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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Gender Gap on Corporate Boards in Canada Creates Calls for Quotas

Women on Business

To date, nine countries have created some kind of quota requirements for corporate board diversity and another 20 have added some type of requirement for companies to address corporate board diversity in their annual reports. Despite these efforts to boost board diversity, women and other minorities are still grossly underrepresented.

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Leadership Biz Cafe #8 – Shama Kabani On How Organizations Can Succeed With Social Media

Tanveer Naseer

Fast Company has called Shama “an online marketing shaman” and Entrepreneur Magazine has dubbed her the “Zen Master of Marketing”. Is it a good idea for organizations to create a social media policy and if so, what should be the focus of such a policy? for Canadian readers).

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