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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Poor Managers Enervate, Effective Leaders Energize Management at an airline with deteriorating customer satisfaction issued a directive urging staff to smile and be nicer to passengers. One key indicator of leadership’s failure to impassion people and foster their commitment is absenteeism. So, I was sick a lot and stayed home.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. Southwest Airlines, has been touted as a servant leadership company as well. Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again. And Kelleher would say, “not on my airline.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. Southwest Airlines, has been touted as a servant leadership company as well. Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again. And Kelleher would say, “not on my airline.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

Systems fail to reach their full potential and people become frustrated, which results in pushback, absenteeism, and low productivity. During this activity, the participants have an opportunity to form small groups and create a positive presentation based upon their answers to three work-related questions.

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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior

Harvard Business Review

So we partnered with Virgin Atlantic Airways on a field experiment to understand how the behavior of employees—in this case, airline captains—influences fuel efficiency, and how low-cost company interventions can influence their behavior. Clearly, positive environmental impact can be quite profitable.