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Southwest Airlines’ Julie Weber on What It Means To Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

HR Digest

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. I believe that Human Resources is my calling.

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How Homesickness Can Harm Migrants Performance At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights the psychological costs associated with moving away from your hometown or homeland, but also how these costs can be mitigated by sensitive policies and management. The firm typically allows workers to travel home for religious festivals, such as Diwali, but only in their first year on the job.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Further Reading.

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Be Flexible, Attract Talent

Marshall Goldsmith

In this time of economic uncertainty, the pressure to control costs is at a peak. With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources.

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Leadership Lessons from Outward Bound

Skip Prichard

This concept of service that [Outward Bound founder] Kurt Hahn felt was so important,” said Laura Kohler, senior vice president of human resources, stewardship, and sustainability for Kohler Co. Funny story: Arthur told me how the Buckleys were traveling to New York from their home in Pennsylvania when they thought up “Home Depot.”

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Nicholas Bate’s Book ‘Instant MBA’ and Other Great Resources for 2010 Nicholas Bate is a prolific thinker, blogger and author. He shared some of his best work with me in 2009, in form of his books and innovatively done cards. More than that, he is a wonderful friend.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.