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Love Them and Lead Them

The Practical Leader

He shows that the most successful organizations create fanatical loyalty that goes way beyond reason to highly charged emotional connections. That’s particularly true in the airline industry. That’s particularly true in the airline industry. Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high.

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). A more human operating system puts humanity, rather than rules, at its core and trusts employees to act, inspired by values, mission and purpose, as opposed to being coerced. 6) Give trust away.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business Review

If consumers start turning regularly to smart speakers for their travel needs, they could end up interacting less and less with traditional airline, hotel, and even online travel agency brands. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Use loyalty programs as leverage. Insight Center.

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CEOs, Get to Know Your Rivals

Harvard Business Review

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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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

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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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!