Miles Anthony Smith

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Aviation Leadership Failures: 37 Worst Plane Crashes in History While many of these crashes happened in the early years of aviation, there have been a surprising number of airline disasters since the new millennium. These videos are a warning to all of us not to get to lazy and complacent in our leadership. READ MORE 4.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

That’s particularly true in the airline industry. Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high. If you’re going to bet on an airline most likely to soar as travel resumes, put your money on Southwest Airlines. Leadership is centered on emotions. They were named the #1 U.S.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 14, 2020

At the core of leadership is the leader’s responsibility to calm people down and engage them in a way that provides comfort and assurance along with honesty. When your employees are anxious, when their work schedules change, when nothing is operating normally it’s easy for people to feel scattered and disengaged. The Leadership Gap.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Sinek reflected and surmised that the true problem he observed was that this airline did not trust their employees to manage what is in front of them and handle it competently. Lunden interviewed the operators who took turns as hostages, sitting in a chair as live fire tore through paper targets just over their shoulders.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. What is different about strategic leadership?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. That’s real leadership.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

Similarly, in today’s business climate, economic asteroid hits are becoming more frequent, forcing organizations to embrace matrix operating models that enable vital adaptability, flexibility and the capacity to rapidly assimilate new ideas. Four Steps to Building Matrix Leadership Skills. Matrix Competencies in Short Supply.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Dear Opponent of Servant Leadership , No, I’m not naive. You think Servant Leadership doesn’t work “in the real world” I guess organizations practicing servant leadership like Southwest Airlines, Vanguard, REI, U.S. This, in essence, is what most leadership books boil down to.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 29, 2010

Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?” ~ Robert Greenleaf The concept of servant leadership can often seem the antithesis to many organizational cultures, where top-down, command and control are the norm. Posted in Uncategorized 10 Responses to “When Servant Leadership Goes Awry&# Kevin W. Please stop by again!

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. American Airlines competes against Skype and WebEx, not just Delta and United.”. And there seems to be a stigma surrounding creative types. There often viewed as quirky, unfocused, strange, and nonconformist. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.”.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 17, 2015

When Southwest Airlines employees tell of CEO Gary Kelly’s dressing as KISS for their annual Halloween party, they are really saying, “We are supposed to have fun.” Leadership connections are similar to electrical connections. Employees are much more focused when they can operate from a wholesome, solid (no BS) position.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It sounds fluffy but self-care is like putting on the airline mask. The best leaders I’ve seen know what they’re good at – some are operating leaders, some turn-around, some growth-oriented leaders. Leadership Tip: Know your leadership style and the circumstances where you are at your best. It kept us connected.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Continuous optimization, both on the operational side and the customer side, is good and important -- in the short term. Japanese airline ANA commissioned a global competition via the XPRIZE Foundation to create the future of travel that has now resulted in targeting the next big market: Space. It pays the rent.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. Not everyone or every organization can, or should operate this way. Less is better, strategically and managerially. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Through both of these exercises, I demonstrated how the growing distractions and communication channels leaders now have to manage in their day-to-day affairs can so easily cause us to drift from the leadership path and direction we originally set out to take. That this is something that only we could do.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

For their study, the authors chose a set of major companies that achieved spectacular results over 15 or more years while operating in unstable environments. 10X Leadership Behaviors. They call these companies "10Xers" for providing shareholder returns at least 10 times greater than their industry.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Generally, most jobs are performed by employees who operate the machines, run business models and design new corporate procedures. In this kind of management, an established framework is given by the manager and then the employees operate within it. The fact is: increased productivity is a result of smart work, not just hard work.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 28, 2015

One approach has been to empower any member of the surgical team to call a halt to the operation so the team can reassess how the procedure has been handled and to point out deficiencies. This approach is patterned on the airlines empowering their pilots to cancel a flight if they believe something is wrong.

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CO2

DECEMBER 19, 2012

During a period in the late 1990′s, Korean Air had more plane crashes than any other airline in the world. Co-pilots were often not involved in flight operations during critical phases of the flight because the pilot was more senior and didn’t “require” the assistance of the co-pilot. Becoming a Leader (Part 2).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The new business paradigm is rooted in four key pillars: higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious culture and management, and conscious leadership. SouthWest Airlines has brought the freedom to fly to ordinary people through lower priced airfares and efficient operations. feel happier by becoming better organized.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The answer is for organizations to develop the institutional frameworks to replace traditional structures and forms of governance and establish a more human operating system in which governance, culture and leadership systems are harmonized and synchronized. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 6) Give trust away.

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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. And they attribute it to their “culture” – from how they operate, to how they hire, to how they make, spend, and save money.

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CO2

JUNE 17, 2013

The airline industry has found, for instance, that under stressful conditions pilots who go into command-and-control mode have a higher failure rate than those who ask for feedback from their crew before making any decisions. Leaders need to operate from a perspective of Not Knowing. Leading Others Teamwork at Work'

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines. Take A Look Leadership Lessons Podcast Leadership Lessons Podcasts : Scott Eblin, executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition , talks with top business and organizational leaders. Click Here.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 23, 2011

This way, you can make a proper evaluation of your organization’s progress that takes into account not only the accomplishments and issues you’re aware of, but also those aspects about your operations which you ordinarily don’t have the time to review and reflect upon.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They want to operate where they are most comfortable. All airlines are the same, except for their people. Practices for Professionals business leadership business management corporate culture employee engagement management and leadership strategydriven Van Moody' They will not set the boundaries for you.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. That’s what happened, remember, in the airline industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Some of these leaders have become legends, such as Andy Grove of Intel and Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines. What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? Empirical Creativity.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

When you cross-train employees within a department, you provide them with the technical know-how to run day-to-day operations, allowing you to focus on ‘The Big Picture’ like communication, vision, and conflict resolution. Special hours of service eligibility requirements apply to airline flight crew employees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. following the introduction of checklists. The implication?

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