Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A study conducted by the University of Michigan’s Workplace Research Foundation also found that increasing investments in employee engagement by 10 percent can increase your company’s profits by $2,400 per employee per year. Companies like Google, who are keen on keeping their talent, already know this fact and act accordingly.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year I wrote about the 5th edition of the Technology at Work report from Oxford University and Citi, which found that over half of the U.S. Companies like Google have already said that their employees will be working from home into the summer of 2021, with other technology companies following suit.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

It’s not a one-time event, whether it be a three-day seminar or a three-week training program. Financial training programs for first- and second-line managers must begin with basic terminology. When I ran my own manufacturing company we evaluated and looked at metrics and statements on a weekly basis.

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Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Oftentimes we find that the most difficult customers are the ones with the lowest gross margins, providing the least amount of profit for the company, despite being the most work. You share the example of Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines as models of love in action and the success it brings. What gets in their way? .

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Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Less than thirty minutes earlier, I''d looked on the airline''s website to double check the departure time, since I knew that the East Coast was being pounded by late afternoon thunderstorms. Unable to retrieve any reliable information from that airline, I swiftly cancelled my flight and rebooked on another airline.

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Airlines Travel Transportation Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. For over 40 years, Southwest Airlines has been a disruptive force in the airline industry, creating an entirely new category and a record 43 consecutive years of profitability.

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

United Airlines is pledging to train its workers better to ensure that “ employees are prepared and empowered to put our customers first ” in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. It’s a new turn in what has been a PR disaster for the company. Of all the U.S.

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Airlines Company Crisis Management Video 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. However, 63% said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency” and poor communication about the strategic benefits of new tools.

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Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

As president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at airports across Japan, he’d been under enormous pressure in recent months. “I have no education or training to do anything else. Kentaro Hayashi buttoned his uniform shirt and wondered if he could really pull this off.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. How do they do it? Let’s start with what doesn’t work.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

How should companies rethink the value of a job, in terms of increased performance through machine intelligence? What set of skills should companies invest in? Which jobs should remain within the company, and which should be accessed via talent platforms, or perhaps shared with peers, or even competitors? Insight Center.

Airlines 8

Airlines Disaggregation Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Q: How do you feel about your job and company now? (I We also tell them that they can make up their answers if they get stuck.

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Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. Encourage employees to monitor rivals, too.

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CEO Norton Airlines Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Many companies are creating accelerators or other separate units responsible for boosting their digital capabilities. Many accelerators are located where the digital brainpower resides — often in cities where the companies themselves are not located.

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Bottom-up Operations Training Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. It is often regarded as the kind of technology that only the most clever and most mathematically-minded people can understand and work with. People do not need to know how to fly a plane to be able to spot sensible new airline routes. Adopting AI.

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Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

And while these companies were the first to acknowledge the business benefits of delivering a great customer experience, business-to-business (B2B) organizations are increasingly getting in on the game. Often, the best way for B2B companies to satisfy the multitude of business customers is to focus on the needs of their customers' customers.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own. Design stems from USE.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

companies probably assume that their employees have the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their jobs. One global technology company my team works with, for example, discovered that, on average, its sales employees didn’t understand or know about 22% of its product features, even though they believed they did.

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Skills How To Learning-by-Doing Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The digital marketer who effectively runs Qantas Airlines'' highly regarded — and very successful — loyalty program has an unusual iPad problem. Flight attendants on Australia''s flagship carrier can now get up-to-the-minute data on the airline''s most elite and valued frequent flyers displayed on their onboard tablets.

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Marketing Airlines Workshop Loyalty 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It starts with employees who have been trained in the science of service. Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! Provide special training for frontline employees. Make sure your employees are trained to handle the potentially stressful task of working with customers.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The loose seats reportedly found on American Airlines planes are rattling around in my mind. American Airlines is already in bankruptcy, but it looks like more turbulent times are ahead. Professional sports franchises that have deteriorated have begun their comeback with better player training facilities and new or improved stadiums.

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Airlines Franchising Audience Brainstorming 15

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

It had to do with better customer service — specifically, an intense focus inside Aeroflot , the infamous Russian airline, to teach flight attendants how to smile. According to the Times , customer surveys indicate that the airline now has the best service of any carrier in Eastern Europe, including the best the West has to offer.

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Airlines Report Bottom-up Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

As IBM celebrates its 100th birthday, many observers are rightly calling attention to the many strategic changes the company put itself through to remain relevant amidst dramatic technological and economic change. According to the company, a full 40% percent of IBM's 400,000 global employees now work remotely.

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Learning Curve Globalization Airlines Training 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Students, workers, and retirees are protesting, targeting trains, airlines, retirement homes, universities, and government offices. In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. However, this time, things seem different. GDP grew by 1.9%

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Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. The offer was implemented so “successfully” that the company could meet neither the demand for vacuum cleaners, nor the cost of the flights. A little later, the U.S.

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Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

McKinsey research shows that companies with advanced marketing and sales capabilities tend to grow their revenue two to three times more than the average company within their sector. The company shifted resources to its most lucrative markets, where two-thirds of the opportunity lay.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The loose seats reportedly found on American Airlines planes are rattling around in my mind. American Airlines is already in bankruptcy, but it looks like more turbulent times are ahead. Professional sports franchises that have deteriorated have begun their comeback with better player training facilities and new or improved stadiums.

Airlines 8

Airlines Franchising Audience Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. The problem isn’t that large companies lack good ideas. At many companies, new innovation initiatives get the blessing of the CEO — but have little interaction with the business units.

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Project Innovation Press Release Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Indeed, a 2012 Royal Society report emphasized that these “enhancements,” along with other technologies for self-enhancement, are likely to have far-reaching implications for the business world. ” For Malcolm Gladwell, “the thing with doping is that it allows you to train harder than you would have done otherwise.”

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Ethics Stress Policies Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

This allowed merchants to put their product in locked containers at the point of production — containers which could be efficiently loaded on and off of trucks, trains, and ships. But what’s more likely is that in order to take full advantage of this new technology, everything will have to change.

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Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The current Apple TV, as it stands, is a set top box that enables an end-run around the cable companies and lets us pipe movies and TV into our living rooms. As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Telepresence will happen.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

First, there has never been a greater need for companies to learn new ways of doing things in response to a complex and dynamic business environment. Well-produced strategy games can model environments tailored to a company’s circumstances and targeted skills. And score-keeping allows performance comparison with others.

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Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The call for companies to engage in authentic dialogue is becoming louder. So empathy is de-prioritized, and relegated to the status of just yet another HR initiative that looks good in the company newsletter. ” We then applied our thinking to the 100 best-known companies in the UK, where we’re based.

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Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

They may be petroleum engineers in an oil company, software engineers in a technology organization, industrial designers in a toy company, or pilots in an airline. These are the highly professional individual contributors. In many cases they have deliberately chosen not to pursue a managerial career.

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