Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

DIY chain Lowe’s, for example, is building 3D printers that print in zero gravity, thus opening up entirely new markets for themselves. Japanese airline ANA commissioned a global competition via the XPRIZE Foundation to create the future of travel that has now resulted in targeting the next big market: Space.

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Innovation Organization Bottom-up Airlines 222

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). Helping the CEO of Southwest Airlines launch a best-selling book. Getting a book endorsement from Seth Godin.

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Levitt Godin Customer Loyalty Airlines 150

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Bring products to market at the wrong time or introduce an idea without understanding timing and the “garden” can quickly resemble a piece of scorched earth. Leaders face “El Niños”: market downturns, a coup in Africa, airline strikes, terrorist attacks. Grow, grow. Sell, sell. You name it.

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Scenario Planning Airlines Leadership Fashion 150

Steve Farber

APRIL 13, 2017

A Lesson from the Un-Friendly Skies of United Airlines. The ensuing bad PR caused United Airlines’ stock price to plunge by 10%, costing shareholders $180 million along with nearly 17 million negative views on YouTube (as of this write-up). One would think United Airlines learned their lesson from that PR fiasco.

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Airlines PR Taylorism Taylor 74

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Poor Managers Enervate, Effective Leaders Energize Management at an airline with deteriorating customer satisfaction issued a directive urging staff to smile and be nicer to passengers. Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people.

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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Squeezing another penny out of costs, getting product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers’ inquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share–those are the obsessions of managers today. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation.

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In business, most pertinent is to sell off goods and effectively market services as quickly as they are available on the market. However, these services’ market demand is not fixed and can go for long periods with minimal requests. Yield management runs mostly on the tilt of the supply and demand of the market.

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Yield Management Price Management Hotels 65

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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Press Release Succession Discount PR 160

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

. “We have always felt that a company is much stronger if bound by love rather than by fear,” explains Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines. Entitled It’s So Simple , the video explains how Southwest is “the company that love built.” ” Ya gotta love it! ” Ya gotta love it!

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Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. In worst hit parts of the world (especially Italy and China) many announcements have focused on compensation reduction for senior executives (especially in the hospitality, automobile and airline industries). 80% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

To adapt to fast-changing market conditions and to respond to complex customer challenges in today’s competitive landscape, companies must innovate. So what are some steps that leaders can take to develop these skills that are so crucial for matrix success? Innovation and the Ghost Organization. Create space to learn.

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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. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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ROE ROI Letter Airlines 50

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 27, 2012

SouthWest Airlines has brought the freedom to fly to ordinary people through lower priced airfares and efficient operations. People have great difficulty fully comprehending or appreciating stages of development that are higher or more complex than their current level. feel happier by becoming better organized.

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Emotional Intelligence Short-term Long-term Price 84

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When it came time to drive cows to market, the hot tattoo was a convenient way to identify a particular cow. On Southwest Airlines Flight 22 from El Paso to Phoenix, the flight attendant accepted assistance from two adoring passengers to help pass out peanuts to fellow passengers. And, it is the dream of every brand manager.

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Brand Airlines Wilde Tools 150

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. In worst hit parts of the world (especially Italy and China) many announcements have focused on compensation reduction for senior executives (especially in the hospitality, automobile and airline industries). 80% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers? 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 6) Give trust away. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. And that’s what’s it all about.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 America’s largest airline and the most profitable – the airline that love built. And that’s what’s it all about.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

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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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my presentation, I reminded leaders that if we are to increase employee engagement levels and tap into the discretionary efforts of our employees, we need to develop relationships with them so we can discover what matters to our employees and how we can connect that to what matters to our organization.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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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Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. Imagine what might happen if there were different steps for each country, or each airline, when it came to handling Air Traffic Controllers’ (ATC) control transfers.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Marketing has entered its “uncanny valley” moment. Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination. Sales & Marketing. And that’s off-putting. It’s worth trying to get right.

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Marketing Content Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Marketing Channel Management Incentives Survey 8

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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Creativity Workshop Blog Video 183

HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In a market scenario where competition is intense, this could help organizations gain a competitive advantage as the existing talent pool is able to meet future demands. Strategic planning of employee onboarding and development ensures consistency. Train Employees for Management & Additional Responsibilities.

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Learning Curve Training Short-term Competitive Advantage 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

They may be petroleum engineers in an oil company, software engineers in a technology organization, industrial designers in a toy company, or pilots in an airline. 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

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

My wife, Kathleen , used to be a commercial banker, and she developed a habit for doing “due diligence”—about nearly everything. Every time we travel away from home she creates a folder packed with information about the airline, rental car, hotel, interesting venues and routes of travel. It’s all there, courtesy of the internet.

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Library Due Diligence Travel Document 90

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

” In this form of marketing, fans who share a common interest are encouraged to engage with little to no prompting by the brand. Done well, we believe that tribe marketing empowers a brand to behave like an effortless host at a cocktail party. ”) will most likely share with others who share that same interest or passion.

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Marketing Brand Merchandising Advertising 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2012

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Why are Raving fans a good thing?

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Team BHAG Blanchard Airlines 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

He claimed that based on this insight he could anticipate their market moves one or even two steps in advance. I knew that meant he would be relatively focused on short-term results while mostly ignoring product development. expansion, out-maneuvering Adelson in the domestic market. “We Competition Strategy'

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CEO Norton Airlines Short-term 11

The Practical Leader

JULY 13, 2011

3, training and development, or technical support. Airlines are classic examples. Just to stay in the game today calls for a functional basic product — there is simply no market for products and services that don’t work. Internally, it can also be a report for the boss, information for the manager in plant no.

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Productivity Products Airlines Quality 49

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. Innovate quickly. Keep it simple.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

If consumers start turning regularly to smart speakers for their travel needs, they could end up interacting less and less with traditional airline, hotel, and even online travel agency brands. They also may provide airlines, hotel chains, and rental car companies more clout when setting up smart-speaker partnerships.

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