Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines. The Business Travel Diva’s Rules for Family Vacations (Section 1: Pre-Flight Checklist) 1. Under no circumstances will luggage be checked. If it can’t fit in a standard size roll aboard and one (that means one people) small carryon bag, it’s not going.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

The airline was having enough trouble negotiating their pilot contracts let alone getting cooperation from the supreme powers that be, so I bugged out to wander the concourse and pump a little blood into my travel weary brain cells.

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Real Estate Travel Conference Airlines 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The digital marketer who effectively runs Qantas Airlines'' highly regarded — and very successful — loyalty program has an unusual iPad problem. Flight attendants on Australia''s flagship carrier can now get up-to-the-minute data on the airline''s most elite and valued frequent flyers displayed on their onboard tablets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

If you have the choice between an Asian or Middle Eastern airline and a U.S. Do whatever you can to get status on Singapore Airlines as quickly as possible. If there is a company that has higher service standards than Singapore Airlines, I'd like to see it. If you happen to give a speech in Asia, expect a gift.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Brown and Millar told me that Sense has been running co-creation, both in global online communities and in workshops around the world, for over a decade. Sense has recruited a pagan witch, a newspaper editor, an airline pilot, a TV mogul, and a prescription drug addict. • Get your top people involved in the workshops.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As facilitator, consultant, and coach she shapes and builds corporate competencies for major corporations such as General Motors, MB Financial, and United Airlines. Bringing the power of her capability to focus on thought leadership, change management, and generating creativity, Val is currently facilitating several workshops around the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. “Airlines,” he concluded, “don’t want to pay more for advanced technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Just like Southwest Airlines or Starbucks , we recognized that a happy staff means happy customers and a more productive, profitable business. Soon, he brought us in to conduct workshops for the senior team at the northern California Whole Foods headquarters. But what would this employee-centric vision look like in practice?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

These are companies like IKEA, Tetra Pak, Singapore Airlines, Tesco, Apple, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Nike, and Vanguard. Yet, how much effort do most executives spend in deep reflection on the true underlying drivers of competitive advantage? How much more is spent looking for the next hot market?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 28, 2015

” – Herb Kelleher, cofounder of Southwest Airlines. The first time I heard the word “love” uttered in a corporate context I was teaching a workshop on leadership for Lockheed Martin Aerospace. “A company is stronger if bound by love than by fear.” He credits the company’s culture for its success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Southwest Airlines promised people the “freedom to fly” at a low price. This starts with 360-degree feedback to assess each leader’s current ability to inspire; it includes workshops and individual training to help executives become the most inspirational leaders that they can be. And what about inspiration?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. There are two reasons for that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Enamored by these numbers — and encouraged by a new wave of reforms to retail, airlines, broadcast, and power sectors — executives who previously ignored India are making a dash for it. India's largest consumer products company, a unit of Anglo-Dutch Unilever, PLC , reported that its sales were up 9 percent.

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Marketing Market Segmentation Retail Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Consider only the complaints aired by a National Institutes of Health workshop, which convened to deal with the problem of why so many findings from animal studies could not be replicated. Or an airline in which the majority of flights crashed. Not one observational finding could be replicated.

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