Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. 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.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. 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.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Southwest Airlines receives a job application every two seconds. We also conduct what we call a career motivation interview to determine if the candidate really understands the job he or she is applying for and if it is aligned with his or her career goals. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Insight Center.

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The Idolbuster

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The last post ended with the no layoff policy at Southwest Airlines. I’ve been through multiple layoffs in my career, although only once was I let go. (As I think people saw me as very knowledgeable, experienced, knew how company worked, how to get things done. Chapter 8: Build Your Community.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 31, 2010

Navy, got married, and began my civilian career. As we waited, I saw several people get really agitated with Delta Airlines. A lot has happened in those twenty-one years. I have moved from South Carolina to New Jersey to Michigan and to Indiana. But, was it really that big of a deal? days to spend 3 days at home never got angry.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

They’re going to be support; they’re going to tell other users how to fix things when they don’t work right. That’s what happened, remember, in the airline industry. It was a crash deregulation in the late ‘70s, and you had this crazy … All the airlines, suddenly everybody became a national airline.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

United Airlines is pledging to train its workers better to ensure that “ employees are prepared and empowered to put our customers first ” in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. But it was already too late – what wasn’t working for United was working for his career.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. These functions are like a nest of hungry sparrow chicks screaming for attention, mouths gaping!

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). We all have many jobs to be done in our lives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Here a few notable examples. Economics and logistics.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 5, 2011

Posted by: Doug Hines | January 05, 2011 at 09:53 AM The airline's learned that charging for blankets and pillows were not popular with the traveller. Posted by: Josh | January 05, 2011 at 09:06 PM Yet another michigan coach searching popular online career websites for that next job offer that can lead to yet another defeat.I

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 2, 2024

It was a time when airline travel was luxurious, politicians were considered role models, and celebrities were famous for the roles they took on, not the clothes they took off. There was a time when hard work was a celebrated virtue, PC meant computer, and face-to-face conversations weren’t made via phone. Let’s take a walk down memory lane.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. We’ve found that answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science: 1) How does culture drive performance? Insight Center.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

His client roster ranges from airlines, banks, and engineering firms to high-tech companies, nuclear power stations, and presidential cabinet officers in two White House administrations. Rodger Dean Duncan is author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP.

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

How to Restore Our Country to Sanity A response to commentary, August 30, 2022, by Dennis Prager, Columnist for the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of Prager U, entitled , “ Women are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country”.

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Chief Executive Officer Self-aware Education Airlines 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. So how to improve? Three years later, many of these ambitious ventures will have quietly expired without an obituary. The problem isn’t that large companies lack good ideas.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Successful Career is a Marathon. But once you get beyond that stereotype, there are some really encouraging examples of senior people who have enjoyed long careers because they have cultivated a broader set of interests and passions. We spoke to Juliet Slot at Ascot about how to deliver a truly exceptional customer experience.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers. Ed Bastian of Delta Airlines comes to mind. Look at how he stepped in front of the cameras during Deltas infamous IT outage in 2016. And, of course, this is ridiculous.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While we can disagree about how to fix the problem, we must acknowledge that globalization is a hard sell if it doesn’t address these distributive issues. Finding effective and affordable ways to help people acquire transferable skills during their careers, not just before they start out, is a large social challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation. Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Among the companies that use this practice are Southwest Airlines, Harley-Davidson, and Whole Foods Market, which have all enjoyed sustained growth after adopting explicit practices of transparency. They also need to learn how to manage the tensions associated with uncertainty, and how to recover from failure to try new ventures again.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As the RCA explained, “We don’t want too many “career academics,” who only work with us. Marines , ballet dancers, and cage fighters, to learn how to lead, lift and grapple better. British Cycling learned from the Royal Ballet to improve how they tour and McLaren to use technology better.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And hardly six weeks later, he was being lectured — again — about how to win a sale. Within weeks he had secured a contract with a major airline to accelerate kiosk rollout in 20 airports and buy software upgrades across their locations. Airline kiosks represent a mature, saturated market. Tom interrupted.

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Case Study Airlines Hotels Software 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

From airlines to autos, and from TVs to taxis, individual entrepreneurs have upended one industry after another. Toss in some office politics and career management interests, and you’ll produce the most banal feedback imaginable. Company founders would seem to be a natural fit for change management programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. It has also led to a growing body of fascinating research , and a growing library of books for lay readers, the latest of which, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions , is just out. Less was more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

As Peter Drucker put it, “culture eats strategy over breakfast” Just take a look at Southwest Airlines, the company which saw the greatest value expansion in the S&P 500 between 1971 and 2001. Well, when Napoleon was in Paris in a room with all his generals around a table, discussing how to attack Russia, that’s strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Social tools were enabling everyday people to break through traditional barriers to connect, build their audiences and careers and get more creative than ever before. Excited theories of how democratization was going to transform the way we did business were all the rage. In the early days of what was called Web 2.0, It happens.

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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. For marketing leaders, this has forced some serious soul searching on how to meet these challenges. Perhaps no other business function has changed as dramatically over the past decade.

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