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The Airline Industry Struggles To Break Free From Gendered Practices

The Horizons Tracker

The airline industry has made concerted efforts to create a more diverse working environment. “Airline organizations, in part, maintain the feminized cabin by setting strict appearance standards that workers embody,” the researchers explain. This change is an attempt to adapt to broader societal developments.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

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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4 Things Successful Change Leaders Do Well

Harvard Business Review

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Optimization vs. Rationalization. Emphasize continuous learning. Mulally would have none of that.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

.” 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. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

When I say, "Social is and can be more than media," people resist. And to them, notions like distributing power to everyone, working in extended community to get things done, or allowing innovation to happen anywhere and everywhere are, well, ridiculously obvious. But they shouldn't be.

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Don't Let the Minimum Win Over the Viable

Harvard Business Review

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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