Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 29, 2013

In fact, if we look at some of today’s successful companies – organizations like Zappos, Southwest Airlines, and The Container Store to name a few – we can see clear evidence that their leaders understand the importance of addressing this core psychological need.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 4, 2011

Here is a video from YouTube of a conversation I had earlier this year about leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation with Dr. Homer Erekson, Dean of TCU’s Neeley School of Business. Learn more about the “Connection Cultures&# that great leaders create by reading Fired Up or Burned Out.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

We find that while we talk about the need for creativity and innovation, employees don’t feel supported or inspired by their leaders and were not given the time or resources to develop new ideas. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2013

The focus of innovation within high-tech and new-age companies is the product itself; once these companies carve out product differentiation, they call on marketing for the sizzle that sells the steak. Airlines, cable providers, telecommunication firms, and credit card companies promise customer service every day. Few deliver it.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Here is a list of HR leaders who are bringing in diversity, engagement, and innovation to their jobs. Diane Gherson, in her 13-year stint at IBM, has driven the HR process from being process-centric to the more agile and innovative competencies that the new digital era demanded. Diane Gherson, CHRO of IBM. Diane Gherson, CHRO, IBM.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But we have also reached the outer edges of success through incremental improvements in quality. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. When I first met then Southeast Airlines CEO, Herb Kelleher, we were both working the booth at the 1997 BookExpo at Chicago’s McCormick Center. Fun Leaders Are Real.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

We’ve worked with four-star generals who describe their leadership method this way: “I give my people the bottom line of what’s gotta happen. Former Alaska Airlines CEO John Kelly was a master at knowing when to take charge through one of his conative capabilities – innovating solutions.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

All successful people – men and women – are big dreamers,” wrote author Brian Tracey. When Southwest Airlines employees tell the story of retired CEO Herb Kelleher hiding in the luggage bin to scare passengers as they entered the plane, they are really saying, “We are supposed to have fun.”.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The CEO of eBay said in an interview, “Most good innovation comes from customers. On Southwest Airlines Flight 22 from El Paso to Phoenix, the flight attendant accepted assistance from two adoring passengers to help pass out peanuts to fellow passengers. Brand lovers contribute ideas that help the brand innovate and grow.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

3) Don’t let “freedom from” obstruct “freedom to.” Social media can help liberate employees from traditional hierarchies and structures that stifle collaboration and innovation but only if new frameworks replace what previously existed. Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry. It is going to take a true public/private partnership to make the re-skilling of our workforce a success. Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. This crisis has put an exclamation point on the topic.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

I can’t remember the contents of the article, but I remember the headline of “Obliterate, don’t innovate&#. Join the Bud to Boss Community to Connect to Resourcing Relationships Our new Bud to Boss Community will provide resources and support to help you become the best leader you can be.

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Surviving Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

It DOES impact the way people work, their ability to be successful, and how your customers view you. Whether or not you personally like Southwest Airlines (and I love them, so there), you can’t argue with their success in a tough industry. It breeds innovation. It pushes the company forward.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

While some handle their “success” well, others fail to realize the happiness that money and celebrity status is expected to bring. Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed. The reason?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry. It is going to take a true public/private partnership to make the re-skilling of our workforce a success. Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. This crisis has put an exclamation point on the topic.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

Business has always concentrated on Return on Investment (ROI) as the primary metric to calculate success. However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. What are you thinking?

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. leadership, recognition, job opportunity, personal development). Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Innovate quickly. Get strategic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 26, 2009

I then called Delta Airlines to cancel our flights. They illustrate the significance of showing leadership in improving customer service. Two days later, all the points were back on my account. Seven nights at the Marriott; no third-rate Hilton and definitely no painful presentation. And I’ve seen many other bloggers do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

From my research and work with companies around the world leading large-scale transformation initiatives, here are the four things I’ve found that virtually all successful change leaders do really well: Recognize embedded tensions and paradoxes. Innovation vs. Regulation. Optimization vs. Rationalization.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2012

I am a fan of many Apple products and believe Steve Jobs played a critical role in Apple’s success. He was – if you refer to technology and innovation. However, if you refer to people or organizational leadership, I believe there are better examples. Implies the leader alone is responsible for the success.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Then recently I was traveling on a major airline (Okay, it was American. I realize without some scripting most employees wouldn’t have a clue what to say, but instead of making me feel better about my situation, it only incited a negative emotion. Which I tried – successfully for the most part – to control.).

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Herb Kelleher fosters a culture of employee empowerment and cost containment at Southwest, enabling the airline to become one of the world’s most admired and profitable carriers. Southwest Airlines is the classic example. But high-performing organizations typically spike on the three or four that are most critical to their success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, great leadership looks the same wherever you are. Years later, he bought a financially ailing airline and transformed it into Asia's most profitable and fastest-growing low-cost operator. Managers are encouraged to innovate. We are not giving these benefits to our employees because we are a successful company.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Even the most successful empire-builders found shoulders to stand on! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Design stems from USE.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Leadership Actions to Renovate Your Culture. And yet organizational culture is a critical success factor to nearly everything. His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

→ May 12, 2009 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate In leadership, one of the things we are always being reminded of is the importance of delegation, and with good reason. Let’s face it, everyone likes to be popular but leadership is not about popularity. What comes to mind for you?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Now this is a blog about leadership and innovation, not about economics and politics. The most successful companies I've gotten to know understand that they create the most value when people at every level share in the value they help to create. Remember: nobody wins unless everybody wins.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble. Success today in every field is about so much more than price, performance, features — pure economic value. The organizations I admire don't just lead their industries in terms of innovation or financial performance or market share. Anybody shocked?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

There are some notable examples of CEOs with courage: In the days following September 11, 2001, Southwest Airlines did not follow its many competitors and lay off tens of thousands of people, thereby keeping intact its record of never having a layoff, or furlough, and building its market share. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A.

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