Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

In struggling to generate a sufficient number of creative ideas, we typically blame the number of creative individuals in our organization or hierarchy and bureaucracy. Many organizations fail to understand and embrace the discontinuous nature of the creative process.” In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions.

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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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HR Digest

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I would say [HR is] moving from processing paper to making sure individuals feel valued in the organization,” said an employment attorney to SHRM magazine. Here is a list of HR leaders who are bringing in diversity, engagement, and innovation to their jobs. Julie Weber, Vice President and Chief People Officer, Southwest Airlines.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

Guest post by Rick Lash, from the Hay Group: The matrix has often been described as a new type of organizational structure that is flatter, more interconnected, more global and more innovative. These descriptions are accurate, but in some ways they fail to capture the strength, resiliency and dynamism of the matrix organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

Former Alaska Airlines CEO John Kelly was a master at knowing when to take charge through one of his conative capabilities – innovating solutions. He knew their conative, or instinct-based MOs, as well as the conative culture throughout his organization. Co-authors Gino Wickman and Mark C.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Ever heard comments like these in your organization? “How many people work in your organization?” ” “The most dangerous place in this organization is at the exit door around quitting time. ” Attracting and retaining top talent is a major problem for many organizations. .”

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

All successful people – men and women – are big dreamers,” wrote author Brian Tracey. Stories telegraph a set of norms or values unique to the organization. Self Leadership Dreams Innovation Inspiration' People have hearts and souls rather than programs and sums; people are emotional, not just logical.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Three principles characterize those organizations that elevate “trust in a brand” to “love for a brand”—inclusion, generosity, and honesty. The CEO of eBay said in an interview, “Most good innovation comes from customers. Brand lovers contribute ideas that help the brand innovate and grow.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The forces of globalization and the emergence of the millennial in the workforce are forcing every organization, including Guardian, to re-think how we hire and reskill our existing workforces. Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry. It’s not just what we see in companies and new technologies. It is the entire world.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The forces of globalization and the emergence of the millennial in the workforce are forcing every organization, including Guardian, to re-think how we hire and reskill our existing workforces. Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry. It’s not just what we see in companies and new technologies. It is the entire world.

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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. But I think we’re going at it wrong.

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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. Not everyone or every organization can, or should operate this way. None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed. The reason?

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. As change tsunamis relentlessly sweep the globe, adaptive organizations are getting stronger and unadaptive ones are being washed out to sea. Organization Learning (e.g. Steps in The Culture Cycle.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The one pervading message we’re hearing lately is that organizations are watching for the economic recovery to start soon and looking for ways to come out of this down cycle stronger than before.

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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. What makes it work for our company?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

American Airlines said it would pay $1,000 to all 127,600 of its people, and Wells Fargo raised its base wage from $13.50 Why not embrace a more expansive logic of success in which nobody wins unless everybody wins? to $15 per hour. In fact, it’s all set out in writing, in The Constitution of the John Lewis Partnership.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. The CEOs message was simple, unexpected, and daunting: None of us aspire to work in an organization that frequently lets down its customers. A year earlier he had taken up his new post at Lakeland.

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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. Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations.

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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. Business Improv !

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Culture is the glue that binds an organization together and it’s the hardest thing for competitors to copy. 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.

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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? Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Even the most successful empire-builders found shoulders to stand on!

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Even more important to the not-for-profit organization: patient intake rose 47%. For example, they learned about scheduling from the just-in-time practices of the upscale Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn and KLM, the Netherlands’ flagship airline. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

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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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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. The synonymous association of Steve Jobs with Apple’s success disturbs me as a classic example of hero worship in business. What is Hero Worship?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Only 15% of organizations succeed in their attempts to improve company culture. And yet organizational culture is a critical success factor to nearly everything. He and I both like the definition that Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, once uttered: “Culture is what people do when no one is looking.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

They also energize their employees by ensuring that their expectations about three overarching elements of work — the nature of their role , the work environment , and their professional development (RED) — are in line with the organization's purpose. Managers are encouraged to innovate.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

First, use better (more relevant, more accurate) data when making decisions, up and down the organization chart. Innovate products, services, and processes. More recently, sports venues, airlines, and others have begun using variable pricing to capture maximum revenue from consumers. Make better decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Just as Southwest Airlines, for instance, has a low cost, point-to-point operating model that disrupted its hub-and-spoke competitors, Amazon has a radically different and better operating model that will crush any competitors who are making one change in nine weeks, while it is making changes every eleven seconds. Innovation Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. Leveraging digital skills across the organization.

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