Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 28, 2015

If you can't motivate people to change, you can't change the organization. This approach is patterned on the airlines empowering their pilots to cancel a flight if they believe something is wrong. It's part of the human condition that, in the face of change, we like things the way they are.

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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. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Reshaping the workers’ motive resulted in better performance. The work of many researchers has found that the first three motives tend to increase performance, while the latter three hurt it. Play is when you are motivated by the work itself. Indirect motives, however, tend to reduce it.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2014

We gave a new car away to our employees every other month, six cars in total, to keep the motivation and excitement up among our best performing sales agents. Relate Articles: All airlines are the same, except for their people. Easy-to-implement ideas to improve your corporate culture and drive employee engagement.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 18, 2010

Durfy’s replacement, Gregg Sartesky, is a 50 something exec who’s grown up in the high grind airline industry. Share this: This entry was posted in Culture Change , Engagement , Generation X , Generation Y , Leadership , Motivation and tagged baby boomer , GenX , resignation , Sean Durfy , WestJet CEO. Happy leading!

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Patience seems to run counter to what motivates promoters!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

However, some people appear to manage career success and a positive private life with ease. Like Mayer, one should take a holistic perspective, thinking of one''s career as an integral part of life, rather than a separate and obligatory activity. Here are a few pointers: 1. Strive for work-life effectiveness—not balance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

The assumption that people are motivated differently around the world — especially in Asia — and that leaders must adapt their behavior accordingly is wrong. Years later, he bought a financially ailing airline and transformed it into Asia's most profitable and fastest-growing low-cost operator. Europe and Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

That's some 80,000 hours during a career — more time than you will spend with your kids probably. Many theories speak to meaning at work, including need-based , motivational , status , power , and community theories. As Dan Pink shows in his book Drive , autonomy is a great intrinsic motivator. Belonging to a community.

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

My case led to changing, among other things, job titles, like draftsman to graphic artist, airline stewardess to flight attendant, and manpower to human resources. And initially my petition was denied in a 15-page decision that, before the internet, went viral and made international news.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We worked with philosophers at The School of Life to develop a set of questions capable of helping people to uncover deeper truths about their organizations, their brands and their own professional motivations: questions like, “Which of your brand’s flaws have you learned to ignore?” A Successful Career is a Marathon.

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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. While their motivations are very different, it’s time to acknowledge that they need one another to succeed in the market. The problem isn’t that large companies lack good ideas.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

Share this: 9 Comments Filed under Leadership Values , Leading Change , motivating & Inspiring Tagged as courage , crisis managment , delegation , managment , Maple Leaf Foods. I have described only four situations where a leader must stand up and be counted. There are no doubt countless others. What comes to mind for you? Or, when G.E.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. No matter how I framed it, no matter how senior the managers in the audience, the debate would eventually come to Stayer’s motives for changing a solid business on a whim. They wanted to hear about Semco, Southwest Airlines, Gore Tex, HCL.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. Rather, behind every decision the average person makes to buy something — whether a product or service, your argument or an idea — is an unspoken emotional motivation.

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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. All serious research, all respected business thinkers, and all great leaders confirm this point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Though there are many drivers of short-term thinking in business today, wealth maximization motives of leaders is certainly one of them. His budget reduction isn’t an insult, it’s a career-building opportunity. Clearly, an owner’s mindset alone can lead to unintended and potentially value-destroying behaviors.

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