Lead by Adventure

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

American Airlines Team Building Spoof. What issues does this video address that we need to address? What are some solutions for the issues discovered? How can we improve our email processes? Every had one of those way-uncomfortable team building experiences where it seems like only the facilitator is having a good time?

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Teamwork Video Team Building Airlines 100

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We’re compelled at an innate level to reach out and bond with those we relate to and who we share a common interest or experience with, a key driving force behind the popularity and growth of today’s social media networks.

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Succession Maslow Motivation Airlines 273

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 7, 2013

At home community rituals may be from a formal community like a church, a family holiday tradition, or the informal male-bonding camping trip. While a few companies like Southwest Airlines have a no layoff policy, this should not be taken as a lifelong commitment – there is nothing to prevent layoffs in the future.

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Long-term Airlines Bond Commitment 44

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

In other words, what are Citibank, American Airlines, Amazon, UPS, and Volvo doing to create engaging apps that bind the user to the company, build brand equity, and provide high exit barriers for customers (and equally high entry barriers for competitors)? Leaders in this space include American Airlines and American Express.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

American Airlines said it would pay $1,000 to all 127,600 of its people, and Wells Fargo raised its base wage from $13.50 ” To be sure, I don’t expect Wal-Mart, American Airlines, or Wells Fargo to transform themselves into U.S. to $15 per hour. Our focus is on social capital.”

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In the wake of the new tax law, companies such as AT&T and Southwest Airlines said they would pay their employees a $1,000 bonus. These executives realized that creating a long-term bond of trust and integrity with your customers and employees sometimes means taking a hit in short-term profits.

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CEO Short-term Long-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Just like Southwest Airlines or Starbucks , we recognized that a happy staff means happy customers and a more productive, profitable business. When we started our first restaurant in 2004, our goal was to create a place where people wanted to not just eat but also to work. But what would this employee-centric vision look like in practice?

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Airlines Bond Morale Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company. Golden parachutes can’t seem to stay out of the news.

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Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

When the builders encountered some technical difficulties while trying to erect the wheel, Richard Branson, the mercurial founder of rival airline Virgin Atlantic Airways, seized the opportunity. In 2000, British Airways sponsored the construction of the London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel in the heart of London.

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Cooper Motivation Class Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. Southwest’s profits are larger than the profit of all other airline companies combined.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Airline JetBlue has embedded this philosophy in its hiring process. So to create an emotional bond with your customers, start with your employees. . The new approach was so effective that Disney rolled it out across all of its parks and cruise ships. Hire for attitude, not aptitude — and then reinforce attitude.

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Banking Airlines Compliance Bond 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Sophisticated retailers create personalized content to help move each customer through a decision journey from considering a brand to evaluating, buying, experiencing, advocating and, ultimately bonding. They are building content supply chains that are guided by insights into customer behavior and replenished by customer-generated content.

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Brand Retail Fashion Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While it may still be true that most of those cushy business class seats are occupied by business travelers, it is also true that most business travelers only see those seats when they board or get off the plane, as many airlines make economy passengers do the “walk of shame” through business class. But should we?

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Travel Class Airlines Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

As the cast of characters in an organization or program grows, coordinating all those people and sustaining healthy social bonds among becomes more difficult. Cut cognitive overload, but embrace necessary organizational complexity.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 11

Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership. Ed Bastian of Delta Airlines comes to mind. Simply speaking to our audience in a natural, unscripted fashion builds trust because it’s hard to hide.

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Brand Storytelling Trends Content 113

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

James Bond might be the world’s best-known spy, but nowadays even an obscure international business traveler could face similar surveillance threats from a hostile foreign intelligence service or even a business competitor.

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Travel Hotels Business Intelligence Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

That's why Greg Wasson, the CEO of Walgreens hired an experienced executive from the airline industry to sit at his table in a customer experience and loyalty role. The best ones turn the old logic on its head and start with the capabilities that will drive the strategy forward to decide the roles that should on the top team.

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Benchmarking Dunning CEO Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A cargo airline provides another example. They are best positioned to spot and understand emerging trends, build strong bonds with customers, and distill new opportunities into real action. A 20 percent boost in share of wallet. The CMO and head of sales stand on the front lines of growth.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

Especially after looking at Sophie's Diana books, the airline ticket stubs, and her passport stamps. We wanted the press to report the mystery and nothing more. Our hope was that 15-year-olds would hear of these mysteries and reach their own conclusions. Sophie also served as a Culturematic because she was a "what if." experiment.

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Marketing How To Brand Travel 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Going to the government and asking for bailout loans is quite chancy, as the airlines have learned recently. Random acts of violence are certainly threats to all, and the ADL built broad coalitions in order to sensitize, educate and further bond communities. Reclaim Company’s Good Name, Chrysler bankruptcy.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

The Trabant was so full of blatant faults, so lacked functional appeal, that it actually inspired a peculiar emotional bond in its owners. ” According to the 2016 Airline Quality Study , the number of complaints filed by travelers on U.S. airlines in 2015 was the highest since 2000.

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Airlines Insurance Industry Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

When I asked Larry Flanagan, who went on to become MasterCard's celebrated CMO, about their decision to award us the business for the Priceless campaign, he said, "We bonded because McCann Eriksson understood the deep desire of the MasterCard customer, but they understood MasterCard's deep desire, too.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Or an airline in which the majority of flights crashed. Where should all this go in our minds?”. Not one observational finding could be replicated. Imagine a product with a 100 percent failure rate. This, we are reminded, is the nature of scientific inquiry: the path to truth is littered with false positives and null results.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

It used to be that only airlines had “loyalty” programs. For instance, airlines offering free first class upgrades or hotels upgrading size of the room for elite travelers often creates an allegiance that trumps price point. Instead, focus on crowdfunding and non-traditional lenders such as Bond Street, Kabbage and Deal Struck.

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