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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Managers are trained, developed and evaluated to lead people in accordance with the human values top management espouses. These practices have allowed Southwest Airlines to develop high employee commitment, to be admired for their customer service, and to outperform the industry.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus.