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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

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There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Yes, a massive winter storm was especially bad for the company.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

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There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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The Cost of Ignoring Employees? 120% Of Annual Income or $0.35 / Share, Southwest Airlines Discovers

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Leadership’s failure to heed their employees. As a result, the company suffered massive failures from archaic IT systems their employees and unions had been begging them to replace for decades. For years, IT employees and union representatives had been complaining about the company’s antiquated technology systems.

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Ken Melrose Completes His Service on Earth

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The servant-leadership community lost another great example and shepherd this week. Ken Melrose, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Toro Company, passed away Sunday May 3, 2020. Ken was a passionate advocate for servant-leadership at Toro and beyond. That is servant-leadership. That is empathy in action.

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Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership

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The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. During mergers and acquisitions it is common for companies, especially the acquired, to experience a dip in operational performance.

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Unethical Leaders Capture Profits from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

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Nestle (CEO: Ulf Mark Schneider | LinkedIn ) Yale Professor Jeff Sonenfeld , who tracks these businesses, their profits from Russia, and their failure to deliver to on commitments to their stakeholders, said: “Consumers should realize that by supporting these companies, they’re endorsing something that fuels Putin’s war machine.”

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USA Gymnastics Demonstrates Failure at Leadership Selection in the Digital Media Age

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In selecting Bono, USA Gymnastics joins an unfortunate list of companies failing to conduct a basic analysis of digital media , before making critical leadership decisions. Now, the organization chose a leader who attacked a company for doing what USA Gymnastics is trying to fix. At issue is at least one post where Ms.

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