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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Tool #5 - Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy This week, let’s understand how companies position themselves in the marketplace to succeed - The Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines.

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Hope Proved to Be a Bad Strategy for LUV—Lessons from the Southwest Airlines Debacle

Art Petty

There are some painful and painfully obvious leadership and management lessons from the recent Southwest Airlines debacle. The post Hope Proved to Be a Bad Strategy for LUV—Lessons from the Southwest Airlines Debacle appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Deming is spinning in his grave over this one.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2023

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2023 curated just for you. Are there mental structures for failure and success? In Mind Shift , McManus brings together twelve mental frameworks that have helped some of the most accomplished people on earth create internal structures of success.

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Leadership—Unwrapped and Unadorned

Lead Change Blog

The true story is a part of the Southwest Airlines folklore—stories you would retell around the corporate campfire. It was raw leadership unadorned by dressed-up diplomacy or gift-wrapped candor. “Be courageous” is one of Southwest Airlines’ Warrior Spirit core values.

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Key Traits of Challenger Brands that Allow Them to Punch Above Their Weight

Leading Blog

C HALLENGER BRANDS know what it means to fight their way to success. Challenger brands can’t spend their way to success with big ad campaigns like the category leaders. Instead, they start with a strong business strategy and an acute understanding of who they are as a brand. A challenger strategy. Challenger promises.

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Preview Thursday: The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success

Lead Change Blog

We are pleased to present this excerpt from The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success by David Nielson. My father worked for United Airlines in a variety of executive positions, rising up to becoming the assistant to the president. The post Preview Thursday: The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success appeared first on Lead Change.

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Revealing The Secret To Successful Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

In leadership circles, we’re constantly on the lookout for sage advice on what it takes to succeed; of what skills, competencies, and/or strategies leaders should employ and exemplify to succeed in today’s challenging, ever-changing work environment. It’s that successful leaders show up. So what is it?