Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Michael Haberman, HR Observations : "Hire Attitude vs. Aptitude": A Lesson From Disney - Southwest Airlines is famously known for having a talent management philosophy of "hire for attitude, train for skill"  Disney - another consistently high performing organization - shares that same philosophy towards employee selection.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. I’m not just talking about the obvious problem of managers who treat their employees poorly.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

His rise to glory with Virgin Airlines was seen as a direct result of his "take no prisoners" personal aggressiveness. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action.

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