Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. Southwest Airlines, has been touted as a servant leadership company as well. Herb Kelleher who built Southwest Airlines on servant leadership, Kelleher used to say my most important leaders are my flight attendants. You read it yourself.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. Southwest Airlines, has been touted as a servant leadership company as well. Herb Kelleher who built Southwest Airlines on servant leadership, Kelleher used to say my most important leaders are my flight attendants. You read it yourself.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

Other leaders have established fun as a pervasive element in their very corporate culture (Southwest Airlines and Zappos come to mind). Therefore, as author and researcher Jim Collins put it, the best leaders will make sure their people are "in the correct seats on the bus." We will have fun.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 119

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Some of these leaders have become legends, such as Andy Grove of Intel and Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble. As Jim Collins, the great management guru, has argued, "The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? Anybody shocked? Who were the Top Five in 2010 ?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world. Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines predicted eleven out of the last three recessions. How do you lead in a world full of crises, shocks, terror and disruptions?

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This simple exercise grows out of a powerful question I heard years ago from advertising legend Roy Spence , who says he got it from Jim Collins of Good to Great fame. BMW falls into this camp, maybe Ritz-Carlton and Emirates Airlines. But really.How many products or services do you know for which this is true? Your dishwasher?

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Company Brand Banking Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

As the vice president of maintenance, repair, and overhaul at American Airlines, Bill Collins was tasked with improving the company’s relationship with unionized workers. Let the group get distracted by tangents — ask if you can address unrelated topics another time. Case study #1: Let everyone be heard.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 4, 2011

Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win William C. Taylor and Polly G. Labarre Harper Paperbacks (2008) How an organization can prosper in a “hypercompetitive marketplace” As William C.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Writers like Jim Collins and Simon Sinek have inspired a generation of leaders to articulate a bigger, broader social mission for their organizations – the “why” that explains the role their company plays beyond the pursuit of profit. People aren’t obsessed with Southwest Airlines because of its brand purpose. Absolutely.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2011

Researcher and author, Jim Collins (author of Built to Last and Good to Great ), says “Whether you prevail or fail depends on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.&# Learning from Southwest Airlines: Nurturing a Culture of Volunteerism. Further Reading: Blog posts on Culture Change.

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