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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Meanwhile the flight attendant union president explained the phone systems also could not handle the load. Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. Accept Responsibility.

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4 Signs It Is Time to Upgrade Your Business Telecom System

Strategy Driven

Having an outdated phone system in your operation can have lots of repercussions. This is why you must always monitor your system’s performance and see if it’s up to par. This is why you must always monitor your system’s performance and see if it’s up to par. You’re Experiencing Shortages.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Meanwhile the flight attendant union president explained the phone systems also could not handle the load. Yet, time and again we see how IT system failures cause major problems for companies. Southwest knows they screwed up.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Structure, strategy, people, management style, systems and procedures, guiding concepts and shared values, and corporate strengths and skills, along with financial performance, served as criteria for selecting excellent companies. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies.

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Pay Transparency Affects Whether Performance Schemes Work

The Horizons Tracker

Boosting performance The results show that knowing your boss’s salary is beneficial when operating under a promotion-based system, but not beneficial when you’re not. Though that increase was concentrated at the top, the meritocratic system did not reduce the performance of low-ranked workers.

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It’s the People, Stupid!

Lead Change Blog

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. You’re all part of a complex human system, and what you and your teammates do affects the other parts of the system. That’s operational trust.

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5 Fleet Management Hacks to Keep Your Company Costs Low

Strategy Driven

Reducing operating costs while maintaining high levels of service can be a challenge, but by implementing strategic fleet management hacks, businesses can achieve significant savings. By streamlining operations and reducing costs, businesses can improve their bottom line and ultimately increase their competitiveness in the market.

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