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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines. They offered consistent, superior-quality burgers and virtually invented the drive-thru.

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Success Begins with Quality Customer Service

Chart Your Course

Moreover, the 2012 Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research Study found that 63 percent of consumers said the quality of customer service received is the most important factor when choosing a brand. Speed Versus Quality. Live Chat Online. Customers always have and will be the most valuable asset of every successful business.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

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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Celebrating 10 Powerful HR Leaders

HR Digest

These qualities are evident in the 10 men and women who’ve achieved a spot in The HR Digest’s 2019 list of the 10 Powerful HR Leaders. Their success is the result of an unwavering leadership acumen in the face of a hyper-competitive market. Julie Weber, Vice President and Chief People Officer, Southwest Airlines.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

The last thirty years of business history have been characterized by giant leaps in quality. We learned the quality lessons of Edward Deming, Joseph Juran, and Phil Crosby as well as the lean thinking lessons of James Womack. Customers today assume what they buy will be laced in high quality. Fun Leaders Are Real.

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Leadership Essentials for the Matrix Environment

Great Leadership By Dan

To adapt to fast-changing market conditions and to respond to complex customer challenges in today’s competitive landscape, companies must innovate. Four Steps to Building Matrix Leadership Skills. Leading in the matrix takes some new skills compared to traditional functional leadership roles.

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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

A leadership lesson Chip gained from his first job was: inclusion will get you more commitment than control. . Helping the CEO of Southwest Airlines launch a best-selling book. He thinks these are the most important qualities in leaders: humility. Being on CNBC, Fox Business, CNN and ABC pitching a new book. trustworthiness.

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