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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines. They offered consistent, superior-quality burgers and virtually invented the drive-thru. Southwest is the only large, low-cost airline that hires friendly and approachable employees who have a passion for helping customers.

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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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Southwest Airlines’ Julie Weber on What It Means To Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

HR Digest

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. What does it take to maintain a sense of purpose at Southwest Airlines?

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37 Worst Plane Crashes & Airline Disasters: Aviation Leadership Failure

Miles Anthony Smith

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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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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How to Engage Employees During Uncertain Times

Lead from Within

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. Recently the CEO of Southwest Airlines took a 10 percent pay cut to help their employees out. The Leadership Gap. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. That’s real leadership.” This requires trust at all levels and a different view of real leadership, says Kurtzman. Kurtzman notes, “Leadership is not coaching.