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. Sinek states that one principle he looks for in successful companies is vulnerable teams. Vulnerability . Vulnerable employees are unguarded and empowered.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

This new understanding of the brain as a complex, interconnected network where information is constantly created, communicated and reinvented provides an accurate model of the inner workings of many successful matrix corporations. The bad news is that the competencies that leaders need to be successful in the matrix are still in short supply.

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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. He set this as the measure of success for the company. With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests.

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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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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Established organizations of a certain size and age, sometimes called “legacy organizations,” are stressed by the entrepreneurial successes. They have money, customers, data, employees, suppliers, partners, and infrastructure -- which put them in a perfect position to transform new ideas into concrete, value-creating, successful offerings.

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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.”. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. And there seems to be a stigma surrounding creative types. 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

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We cannot control much of what happens around us, but the choices we make, as Jim Collins and Morten Hansen’s research confirms, determine our success. 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.

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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. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 28, 2015

And if the organization can't change, there is no long-term success. 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. Source: Roadmap to Success.

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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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CO2

JUNE 17, 2013

You might have enjoyed some success, but it was exhausting, and you didn’t quite get the results you expected. To be a successful leader, and get great performances from others (the way you used to perform), you must ASK, not TELL. Leaders need to operate from a perspective of Not Knowing.

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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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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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Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines. The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. The Business Travel Diva’s Rules for Family Vacations (Section 1: Pre-Flight Checklist) 1. Click Here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Success in the workplace depends on your ability to relate effectively to people. Your success at work depends on your ability to set the kinds of boundaries that encourage mutual respect and keep the focus on productivity. They want to operate where they are most comfortable. All airlines are the same, except for their people.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Oleg is a thought leader, author, business educator and consultant with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting Fortune 500. Thirty Lessons I Learned About Leadership. Leadership is a lifelong journey through different experiences every day. Leadership is not a dictatorship. Leadership is an art.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. 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. Empirical Creativity. You must also create.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. When you think about it, internet retail today is similar to the airline market before frequent flyer programs were introduced.

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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. Optimization vs. Rationalization. Hold everyone accountable.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Success with change is less like installing an air conditioner and more like growing a garden. Success with change is less like engineering an event and more like navigating a journey. The enemy is poor management of change.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services.

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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. We are not giving these benefits to our employees because we are a successful company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

But what if speed is the wrong measure for success? If we rethink corporate success as survival in the face of rapid, globally competitive change, then here’s the question: what does it take to sustain competitive advantage? Take Southwest Airlines as an example. Competition Execution Operations'

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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! Talk to other entrepreneurs, but only accept advice from the successful. No one is equally expert at both.

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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

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. But the leadership at Dartmouth-Hitchcock wanted to inject innovation into their primary care program. Buy-in from the Goliath’s top leadership was critical.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions. Sometimes it's new leadership that spurs action, other times efforts percolating within companies capture executives' attention. A third of the CCOs previously held Division President or GM roles, and almost as many worked in a marketing and/or sales position.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have.

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