The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, IBM, ING, 3M, and Proctor and Gamble are some of the adaptive cultures providing insights to the enduring success growing from their highly effective cultures. Expectations (e.g.

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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. So we worked extra hard to protect our key sales people.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

In other words, what are Citibank, American Airlines, Amazon, UPS, and Volvo doing to create engaging apps that bind the user to the company, build brand equity, and provide high exit barriers for customers (and equally high entry barriers for competitors)? Leaders in this space include American Airlines and American Express.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s look at an example that most of us directly interact with for hundreds, if not thousands, of hours annually: the airline industry. Pilots are a critical pool of talent for an airline; there must be a sufficient supply with appropriate skills to operate the airline.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

If you''re not satisfied with these changes you can cancel your account by calling us," the statement said — hardly an attempt at building customer satisfaction or loyalty. Airlines are a good example. If the airlines had assumed that consumers were weak and insignificant, they were wrong. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Southwest Airlines’ decades-long strategy of “short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service” produced what was not only one of the best-performing airlines in the U.S. For example, deregulation killed off icons in the airline business such as Pan Am and TWA. Or consider U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Companies have to develop guidelines for how to act when a particular event occurs. For example, if a customer tweets about an upcoming trip but hasn’t yet purchased a flight, the airline can turn to its social CRM program to find out that this person is a priority member, and say, frequently tweets about craft beers. decline).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. And airlines are gearing up for a price war on trans-Atlantic routes as some low-cost carriers plan service between the U.S. telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served. Why is it that? That might sound strange.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It We have found that when this process works well, marketing often takes on an expanded role by, for example, providing sales with data analytics and by supporting the development and testing of sales plays for a specific micromarket or customer peer group.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

As a management consultant, I often have a courtside seat to the senior team discussions of many companies. They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance. 2) Reset the rules of the game.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

They will pay threefold back with respect, support, and loyalty. The leader develops people. Leadership Tip: Develop people and help them explore their potential. Leadership assumes certain capacities depending on the size and complexity of the managed organization. Make your leadership worth following.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Businesses that are organized and managed around a noble, healing purpose are not only great places to work, they’re also beloved by customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders. This included actions like managers asking employees daily for suggestions for making their lives better. He has never sold a single business.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Supporting team members in this way is a powerful demonstration of love and a powerful way to build loyalty with team members. You share the example of Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines as models of love in action and the success it brings. The leader could certainly refer that customer to a competitor who would take care of them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. I’m not just talking about the obvious problem of managers who treat their employees poorly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

To maintain high worker morale, productivity, and loyalty in such a diverse and changing conditions, IBM has placed new emphasis on the "resources" component of HR in four directions. He exemplifies IBM's unconventional attitude toward developing the talents of its unconventional workforce.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

You're a corporate shareholder unhappy with the direction management is taking. You're a United Airlines Premier Platinum member with hundreds of thousands of unused miles, and you've decided you can't take the airline's post-merger disorganization and shoddy service any longer. The terminology comes from Albert O.

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