Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

For their study, the authors chose a set of major companies that achieved spectacular results over 15 or more years while operating in unstable environments. They zoom-in and zoom out to manage risk and recognize luck. They call these companies "10Xers" for providing shareholder returns at least 10 times greater than their industry.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. Developing Teams. Shifting Culture.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The idea of what we focus on was one of the central themes of my talk on what leaders need to address in terms of managing the various challenges their organization faces or will face going forward. That this is something that only we could do.

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CO2

DECEMBER 19, 2012

5 Step Personal Development Process. During a period in the late 1990′s, Korean Air had more plane crashes than any other airline in the world. When leaders fail to encourage dissent, for instance, it’s often because they have trouble managing their emotions and social relationships. So, why the rash of crashes?

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The new business paradigm is rooted in four key pillars: higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious culture and management, and conscious leadership. SouthWest Airlines has brought the freedom to fly to ordinary people through lower priced airfares and efficient operations. feel happier by becoming better organized.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. In the U.S., This issue can become a major performance barrier.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. Because the airline had the option, but declined , to pay about $10 per flight for real-time access to it.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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Surviving Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

Listen, I’m a big fan of being intentional about the culture you’re allowing to develop in your workplace. Whether or not you personally like Southwest Airlines (and I love them, so there), you can’t argue with their success in a tough industry. And I’m not the only one who thinks that!).

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 23, 2011

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the importance of leaders taking time off work and going on vacation, a piece which I’m happy to share has been picked up by the American Management Association (AMA) and is now featured on their website. What changes should we make in the upcoming months to ensure we stay on target?

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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. Ben: So you.

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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. Ben: So you.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. The problem is that the private sector is not easily organized to create or bolster public goods.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Quick, name a product that was developed without using software. It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. It’s difficult, if not impossible.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Train Employees for Management & Additional Responsibilities. When you cross-train employees within a department, you provide them with the technical know-how to run day-to-day operations, allowing you to focus on ‘The Big Picture’ like communication, vision, and conflict resolution. Staff More Strategically.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

In the weeks and months that followed, the senior management team and I made a number of major decisions about the company’s future. As a team, I observed, we were busy doing things and making changes, all of which made sense to us as managers. It’s an operational plan. How about the service? Effective leaders listen.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

As president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at airports across Japan, he’d been under enormous pressure in recent months. But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” ” “I’m Toshi. It gets better.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Leading organizations are already using the power of social media to shape their business process management (BPM) agendas. Social tools can make the "process of process management" much more nimble , by delivering information to process participants about improvements needed for operational processes.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. 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

JUNE 12, 2015

But look under the hood and you will find an array of sensors and proprietary technology developed by GE that make their pilots smarter. The system looks for hidden patterns and saving opportunities, and allows the airline to cut its annual fuel bill by more than 1 percent. It was further developed by GE Aviation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Eighteen years ago, five airline companies—Lufthansa, Air Canada, United Airlines, Thai Airways and Scandinavian Airlines—formed an alliance with a vision to offer better services to their customers. Even when dealing with any one airline, they could enjoy access to the resources of several airlines.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. So we worked extra hard to protect our key sales people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. Their findings quickly confirmed that ANA's focus on its customers' customers would benefit the airlines, as well.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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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. And they can create a lot of value by generating new business.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. But only when you implement all of them together, as a single system, will they enable you to attract, develop, and retain the strategic leaders who’ve eluded you thus far. Instead, create a variety of channels for innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. There is no central actor setting the rules such as having to manage artificial constraints like a fixed eight-hour workday. Maybe it’s not an exact apples-to-apples comparison, since you can’t break up an airline into multiple moving parts (at least not yet).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Managed by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, the list bans people on it from boarding commercial aircraft within, into, or out of the United States. Every company should develop its own threat list using the research that is most relevant to its industry, geography, business, and other factors. Luerat Satichob/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For example, sometimes when a senior manager makes a request, it causes a cascade of activity that is far beyond what she intended. In order to increase profitability, airlines now charge separately for many previously bundled services — such as checking baggage, providing seats with leg room, eating meals on-board, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

How you managed people there will not work here. Having led and managed people in eight countries across three continents, I have found the exact opposite to be true. 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

JUNE 29, 2016

Airlines Easyjet and Lufthansa have adopted drones as a tool for aircraft inspections. And one of retail’s largest players, Walmart, is testing how drones could help improve warehouse inventory management. Factors such as investment horizon, need for data security, and desired development speed will influence this choice.

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