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. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Congressional Hearings.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Empirical Creativity. You must also create.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

To compensate your side of this seesaw, creative shortcuts cultivate new directions for building business and explore the inspiring nature of change. The most creative approaches will get the most attention. No one is equally expert at both. Most are talented in one over the other. And, being ready, you are confident.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. Seeing bottom-up initiatives through.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Operations Training Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

How could a well-trained crew flying a modern airliner so abruptly lose control of their aircraft during a routine flight? As technology has become more sophisticated, it has taken over more and more functions previously performed by pilots, bringing huge improvements in aviation safety.

Technology 8

Technology Airlines System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. “If nothing else, pilots are creative,” one remarked. But to get change means encouraging innovators.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The 9/11 terrorist attacks; the Mumbai, Bali, and London Tube bombings; the attempted bombing of a Delta airlines flight in December 2009; and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of the personal magnetism of Oussama Bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda cause.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. But even as we work through these issues, we continue to collaborate on ways technology can transform healthcare, and our role in that.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. Southwest Airlines exists in a class of its own in large part due to its fun personality. My job is to sort out the companies with potential from those that need to go back to the drawing board. Hyundai is an -er brand.

Brand 8

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 8

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. Freedom to explore long-term ideas and emerging technologies is important. Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies. At Aon Health, part of $11.7

Project 9

Project Innovation Press Release Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. According to the airline’s campaign site , over 50,000 people have signed on.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

This is a stifling tax on a company’s capacity to find creative approaches to solving unmet customers’ needs. As such we struggle with the tension between the desire to boost innovation and the need to operate under increasing regulation. Optimization vs. Rationalization. Digitization vs. Humanization.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. 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.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8