Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

As someone who has spent their career going inside organizations that do customer service extremely well – from Nordstrom, USAA, Southwest Airlines, Zappos , L.L. Southwest Airlines creatively spells words such as “luv” in its mission statement and internal documents. Support for customer-focused innovation. No “not my job.”.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Recent weeks have seen a spate of layoffs being announced by the retail, beverages and the airlines industries totaling nearly 200,000 in number. MGM Resorts International, United Airlines and Coca-Cola are the latest to announce that the furloughed employees have been let go. million, says a MarketWatch report.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2012

He was – if you refer to technology and innovation. In Jobs case, I’d suggest this was creativity, innovation and technology. There are plenty of resources to cover the extensive benefits of servant leadership. I am a fan of many Apple products and believe Steve Jobs played a critical role in Apple’s success.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In one of the exercises I used during my presentation, I demonstrated how easily our attention can shift our focus away from what we need to be working on, and consequently, we end up responding or allocating time and resources to address the wrong things. That this is something that only we could do.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

If I’m going to fly, I have to trust the airline to have sane, sober, skilled, alert pilots. How much we need to trust others depends on the context, but also on how much we trust ourselves, our own resources and our ability to understand the context we are in. Trust has big implications on our resources, as you’ve said.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Why is the airline industry so terrible? Chasing the next-higher-margin consumer requires both new firms and incumbents to leverage their resources, processes, and priorities. Chasing the next-higher-margin consumer requires both new firms and incumbents to leverage their resources, processes, and priorities.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2020

Respondents expressed concern that working remotely over a longer period of time might diminish their sense of purpose and meaning, whereas others voiced concern about the resources they have at home to work effectively. Irregular work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But since deregulation in 1978, airlines in the U.S. airlines filed for bankruptcy. Airlines suddenly leveled off. The turnaround can’t be attributed to a bold, Da Vinci-esque initiative such as new carbon fiber aircraft, the pioneering of new markets or even low-cost innovation. airlines earned an estimated $12.4

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

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. I can’t remember the contents of the article, but I remember the headline of “Obliterate, don’t innovate&#.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Are people moving from the innovation lab or pilot test team to help with the roll-out? So how to improve?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. All airlines are the same, except for their people. Relate Articles: Marketing and Sales – Some Sales Are Simply Not Worth Making.

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Surviving Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

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. Listen, I’m a big fan of being intentional about the culture you’re allowing to develop in your workplace. It pushes the company forward.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed. Not everyone or every organization can, or should operate this way. The crossing of every “t” and the dotting of every “i” is critical in hundreds of industries. Leaders and managers who work in these industries need all of the information.

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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. Innovate constantly. Get strategic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. That's just what my life is like.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? It is the innovator’s job. What problem is the customer struggling to solve?

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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. We can’t scale up much in the way of additional resources, so we’re going to have to be resourceful. For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 26, 2009

I then called Delta Airlines to cancel our flights. When I explained the situation to the customer service agent, she immediately called another person who, without any questions beyond what was necessary to understand our situation, immediately approved the full refund of our points with no obligation to rebook with them.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2011

To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Experts from Hay Group, which partnered with [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mel Stark and Mark Royal for Talent Management magazine (5/10/2011).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 18, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Managers once discouraged, even forbade, casual interactions [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Anne-Laure Fayard and John Weeks for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

At a reception for JetBlue’s most frequent Mosaic flyers, I had the opportunity to listen to the airline’s top management discuss its ambitions to improve operations and enhance customer experience. Hointer’s salespeople are as much information resources as people who sell. That distinction’s not subtle.

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Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. How should they better prioritize innovation? These Labs were filled with talented technologists and innovators. What should they do?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.

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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

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. “They want to see their product commercialized.”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Airlines say that delays caused by air traffic controllers cost them a combined $4 billion per year. For every 1-cent reduction in the cost of jet fuel, the airlines save $170 million. The product’s former innovation and dominance has somehow missed the mark in today’s business climate. Cargo theft costs the U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” Trying to cover it all would be operationally overwhelming and a waste of resources. While breadth is a virtue for a public policy audience, managers need ways to prioritize and focus resources. Some goals may be too broad or too distant.

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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

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

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Despite best efforts, the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger will hit points of turbulence. Aging populations will drain national resources. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. That is an asset and societal resource.

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