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How Southwest Airlines Hires Such Dedicated People

Harvard Business Review

Southwest Airlines receives a job application every two seconds. Given the talent shortage facing our industry, you’d think we’d be tempted to snap up many of those candidates, particularly ones with backgrounds in engineering and technology. Our development and promotion practices are also tied to our company values.

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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. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? 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. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? And Kelleher would say, “not on my airline.

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Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking

Harvard Business Review

They may be petroleum engineers in an oil company, software engineers in a technology organization, industrial designers in a toy company, or pilots in an airline. In many cases they have deliberately chosen not to pursue a managerial career. These are the highly professional individual contributors.

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International Travel as Education, Adventure and Service

Chris Brady

There were the occasional family trips across the country, the most memorable being the one to California and back after my High School graduation, complete with a robbery, car accident, and engine flames in the cab of the motor home while driving down the highway (these and other episodes will perhaps be covered in future musings).

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. We can leverage each other’s expertise. Mine your backyard.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples.