Decker Communication

JULY 10, 2019

This is where communications training and coaching, and particularly our consulting , has a huge impact on influence, culture, and execution of strategy. In the last few years, businesses began placing learning and development at the top of their priorities, where employees consistently rated communications training as a vital need.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

” Southwest Airlines’ sought to “Become THE low-fare airline” in the nineties. As a successful basketball coach and educator for over 20 years, Sean gained valuable insights into how to develop winning teams, something that forms the basis of his new book “ Rapid Teamwork ”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

New emotional and social intelligence research from Hay Group has shown that Empathy , Conflict Management, Self-Awareness and Influence are all key skills required for effective leadership in the matrix environment. Only 20 percent were found to have a strong sense of influence. Four Steps to Building Matrix Leadership Skills.

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Environment Self-aware Leadership Emotional Intelligence 250

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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? How did you build that kind of influence”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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? How did you build that kind of influence”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When I first met then Southeast Airlines CEO, Herb Kelleher, we were both working the booth at the 1997 BookExpo at Chicago’s McCormick Center. Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, had just been released. Fun Leaders Are Real. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s great book, Nuts!

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

While the general approach to influencing change is similar across projects, the specific details of how you implement each project will depend on what you’re trying to change. In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. Developing Teams.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2020

To remedy this situation in the hospitality industry, a new pricing strategy was developed; the Yield Management strategy. A simple answer will be that Yield Management is a pricing strategy developed for the hospitality, air travel, tourism, and related industries that helps to produce maximum returns from their services.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Blog Middle Management Talent Management Human Resources 157

Next Level Blog

JULY 14, 2010

In the interest of developing a comprehensive resource, feel free to add your own in the Comments. Doing so abdicates all control of the trip to the airlines. Immediately find the first Departures board, scan the list of cities for our destination, confirm the flight number and develop your plan for getting to the gate.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

Solving our business problems, making leaps in productivity, Customer Service, product development (or anything else), requires the same shift. Meeting the criteria laid out by NASA would require thinking quite different from the thinking that leads to the planes of today.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Our inability to influence the outcome of an event is deeply unsettling. All airlines are the same, except for their people. What are you thinking?

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ROE ROI Letter Airlines 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

That is, the people who hold positions of stature within a company’s hierarchy, to whom several individuals report, and whose influence comes in great measure from the positions they hold. It may be someone in product development who without any direct reports, plays an essential role in the selection and development of new products.

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Development Report Leadership Development Budgeting 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. In his book entitled Influence by Robert Cialdini he explains that one of the most influential words in the English language is ‘because’.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 10, 2010

I know thousands of people, and many of them wield tremendous influence. We need something specific from the other person–an airline ticket, or lunch, or help with a question. In Third Floor relationships, people develop an emotional comfort level that goes beyond facts and information. Really, truly ROCKS.

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Letter Long-term Open-book Learning-by-Doing 80

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 12, 2010

For instance, Southwest airlines’ over-arching purpose is stated as: “To provide the best service and lowest fares to the short haul, frequent-flying, point-to-point, non-interlining traveler.&# This simple statement lets everyone know why Southwest Airlines is in business and whom it is there, ultimately, to serve.

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Environment Servant Leader Leadership Airlines 42

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

B2B companies serve a more complicated set of customer roles — including influencers, purchasers, and implementers — whose needs vary significantly. That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Aggressive moves by airlines to migrate frequent flyer metrics from miles flown to dollars spent have caused bargain-hunting road warriors worldwide to whine about “disloyalty programs.” Airlines have clearly calculated that customers who spend more are more valuable to them than customers who fly more.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Airlines Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

These developments in the retirement system change who is in control of Corporate America. In “ Anti-Competitive Effects of Common Ownership ,” José Azar, Isabel Tecu and I show that airfare on a given route goes up when competing airlines serving that route become more commonly owned by the same investors.

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Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Here a few notable examples.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Last month, when I tweeted to American Airlines about a delay, no one tweeted back to me and no one realized that the tweet was also from a long-standing AAdvantage Gold member. To surgically cut through the noise, advertisers need to develop richer customer profiles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. But methods can be learned. You may think that this will be easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Airlines Easyjet and Lufthansa have adopted drones as a tool for aircraft inspections. If a company can identify potential benefits, it can then consider whether to consolidate drone program development across multiple business units or subsidiaries, so as to concentrate investment dollars and strengthen data analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

And airlines are gearing up for a price war on trans-Atlantic routes as some low-cost carriers plan service between the U.S. A discount grocer, by contrast, typically uses private-label goods to influence price perceptions. The next task is to identify the factors that have the strongest influence on perception. and Europe.

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Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Last month, when I tweeted to American Airlines about a delay, no one tweeted back to me and no one realized that the tweet was also from a long-standing AAdvantage Gold member. To surgically cut through the noise, advertisers need to develop richer customer profiles.

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Brand Advertising Airlines CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

They have power and influence resources. Even if their teams are small, their voice on the executive management team means they have influence over how the company prioritizes and spends resources. About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions. Consider one example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Take the airline control system—the outcomes it delivers vary tremendously by weather, equipment availability, time of day, and so on. Firms have been developing models that predict how their customers will behave for years. This idea is not new, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Take the airline control system—the outcomes it delivers vary tremendously by weather, equipment availability, time of day, and so on. Firms have been developing models that predict how their customers will behave for years. This idea is not new, of course.

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Budgeting System Library Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. They are not senior enough to have the necessary influence. Process owners misunderstand their role.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. What Trends Currently Influence Servant-Leadership? Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41. Ben : Yeah.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. What Trends Currently Influence Servant-Leadership? Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41. Ben : Yeah.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If it would have an immediate business impact, such as the impact that an airline’s loss of its reservation systems would have, then it is likely to be a key operational investment. Development approaches. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Called audio branding, sonic branding, sound branding, or acoustic branding, cognitive studies show that relevant sounds and musical cues can truly influence people in ways marketers want. First, already in competition with airlines, they were beginning to compete with German and Italian railroads.

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Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

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Process CEO Operations Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies are now taking advantage of this new marketing reality, becoming more skilled at getting their customers to advocate for them, create peer influence in their markets, and make important contributions in areas like product development and services. Think Apple, or Southwest Airlines, or for a more recent example, Zipcar.

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