Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. They’d say, “Flight attendant?!

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. AFTER exploring accessible connections, research those you most respect and try to cultivate a contact or, at a minimum, try to get good advice from them. Their advice can be invaluable. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2012

In Front Line Heroes , Bruce Hodes offers executives and business leaders advice culled from 30 years of coaching privately held companies ranging from $5 million to $100 million in size. Ask Zappos, ask Southwest Airlines, ask Apple, ask Jimmie Buffett and ask CMI (that is us). Why are Raving fans a good thing?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

Some surface unpredictably (dress for an out-of-town business meeting after the airline lost my suitcase); some regularly (pack a healthful lunch for my daughter to take to school). Related: Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing – Customer Focus is at the core of a well managed company – What Job Does Your Product Do?

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

” These case studies are legendary among marketers. For marketers in the digital age, negative customer feedback that takes on a life of its own is a nightmare. I’m no road warrior, but I do clock an average of 100,000 miles a year, meaning I have some elite status on various airlines. Motrin Moms. Dell “hell.”

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Media Airlines Travel Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

They ask, "If we were a cable TV channel or a mass market magazine, what would our content, tone, and the experience we offered be? Most marketing aims to make consumers aware of a solution or an aspiration they had not considered. But increasingly marketers are seeking to help consumers who are already in a market solve a problem.

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Brand Retail Fashion Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. Growth: A TV cable company offers special subscription plans for new customers, aiming to achieve a strong market position within 24 months. Why is it that?

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Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The theme park team didn’t consult a script or seek advice from managers. Airline JetBlue has embedded this philosophy in its hiring process. They can help leaders understand what customers want without the time and expense of market research. The girl’s mother described the doll’s return as “pure magic.”.

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Banking Airlines Compliance Bond 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

While marketers strategize heavily around how to help consumers decide what to buy, how much time do they spend thinking about how they will pay? This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. Below is an edited version of our conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

To investigate this question, I interviewed Roger Martin , the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada. It's sort of like how airlines assume they should make money — no. Only one airline has made money over the last 40 years in the U.S.: Southwest Airlines.

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Franchising Airlines Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

CEOs can waste a massive amount of time simply tending to the egos and petty squabbles of professional managers―time better spent connecting directly with the front line and solving their needs. Professional managers tend to worry most about stakeholders somewhere in their own office. I recognize this sounds harsh; it is.

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CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

It might consider taking the advice of NASA''s Charles Bolden Jr. This must mean the death of several airlines, the loss of thousands of hotels and restaurants, the disappearance of millions of tax dollars, and the dissipation of nearly a half million jobs (assuming that we are going to lose 20% of the 2.2 Rough estimate.)

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

That is one of the principles behind “ open-book management “, the systematic sharing of information about the nature of the enterprise. This approach clearly differs from that of traditional cultures, in which the common channel for new ideas is limited to an individual’s direct manager.

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Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Delta executives recognized that to improve customer experience while simultaneously striving for operational excellence, the airline had to be able to invest rapidly and independently in new proprietary software applications that built on its passenger service and operational platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

How Bad is Airline Service, Really? Youngme and Mihir welcome their colleague Ryan Buell to discuss whether airlines deserve their reputation for terrible customer service. Why Management Practice Matters. A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management. Download this podcast. More HBR Podcasts.

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Download Airlines Retail Brainstorming 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Congressional Hearings.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Many marketers are left behind, simply tuned in to the wrong frequencies. But data, alone, isn’t enough; search and social marketing, for example, are content hungry disciplines.

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Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal. Trump Shocked the World.

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