Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I once asked company leaders what they saw in their products. Most of the responses were descriptions of the product, until one leader said he saw peace. Isn’t a picture of peace more inspiring than a picture of your products? More importantly, what are the stories of how your company is affecting lives? All are servant-led.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 26, 2014

Whenever a new product, idea, solution, or strategy comes along, we sometimes catch ourselves getting distracted and focusing a lot of our efforts towards our Shiny Object. We all like Shiny Objects. We’re attracted to them. Like moths to a flame. It can be anything. The ones who allow us to procrastinate. Why does this happen?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

My father worked for United Airlines in a variety of executive positions, rising up to becoming the assistant to the president. Both of my parents took their roles seriously, shaping their kids to be independent, productive individuals. Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 4, 2011

Here is a video from YouTube of a conversation I had earlier this year about leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation with Dr. Homer Erekson, Dean of TCU’s Neeley School of Business.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

He believes that we are getting in our own way by the way we think, decide, and act with regard to the development of original ideas. We find that while we talk about the need for creativity and innovation, employees don’t feel supported or inspired by their leaders and were not given the time or resources to develop new ideas.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 14, 2020

Recently the CEO of Southwest Airlines took a 10 percent pay cut to help their employees out. Then do everything you can to keep your company and people engaged and productive. If they need financial support to help them through, be creative in finding ways to provide it, and if money needs to come from somewhere, take it from the top.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They could be directly tied to carbon emissions or to the development of low-carbon products and services. What’s more, the researchers believe that executive incentives could be formulated in a number of ways to successfully link them to climate metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

The most important job for startups is to focus on their (probably one) product and to subsequently scale up. Established organizations have to entertain many more considerations with their complicated product portfolios and business structures.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity. “I Mastercard believes in developing both current and future skills. Julie Weber, Vice President and Chief People Officer, Southwest Airlines.

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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. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Strategic leaders must be able to select talent and encourage people in their teams to learn and grow each year through developing additional skills in line with the company strategy, taking on challenging tasks in order to increase their on-the-job education, and so on. Be strategic in your role as product manager.

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CEO Blog

MAY 19, 2014

Enrich your productivity by rejecting false shortcuts. We did not deliberately memorize numbers but knowing them created an efficiency. Now I think I could gain efficiency by memorizing a few things. Enrich your standing by trusting someone else. Enrich your organization by doing more than you''re asked.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We all went to school on how the Japanese transformed a rotten “made in Japan” reputation synonymous with junk into one that represented the pinnacle of zero defects products. We have a workforce that has largely embedded quality into the ethos of all production. Fun Leaders Are Real. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s great book, Nuts!

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The Practical Leader

JULY 13, 2011

The inner product ring is the basic, bare product, service, or core offering on its own. 3, training and development, or technical support. The customer appeal of that product or service depends on the extent to which it meets minimum requirements and specifications. Airlines are classic examples.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 14, 2011

develop them to their full potential, including pre-screening, job matching, onboarding, managing performance, and maximizing potential. I have signed up to receive email alerts from Profiles International, a firm that offers assessment solutions that enable organizations to select the right people and ?develop

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Then the authors compared those companies—Amgen, Biomet, Intel, Microsoft, Progressive Insurance, Southwest Airlines, Stryker—to similar, but less successful, "control" companies: Genentech, Kirschner, AMD, Apple, Safeco, PSA and United States Surgical. These 10Xers didn’t survive on chaos, they survived in chaos. Don’t overreact to events.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2016

In June, I found out that Captain Denny Flanagan, of United Airlines (UAL) retired after 30 years with UAL and 20 years Navy before that. So why shouldn’t we know about the “product” we are buying? PROLOGUE: I wrote this over 9 years ago. The CEO of United, Oscar Munoz, came to the airport to greet Captain Denny on his final flight.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Employee Motivation Tips Studies have shown that happy employees are more productive than unhappy employees. These often include airline miles, concert tickets and gifts. Yoga helps its practitioners to manage stress, develop coping skills and to improve their overall mental well-being. Share credit card perks.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2020

Thankfully, for all of the challenges we’ve had with connectivity and so on, the technology infrastructure has largely supported the transition, and the rollout of 5G and continued development in areas such as augmented reality and telerobotics promise to make more of the work we do possible remotely. ” Productive work.

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Lead by Adventure

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

It doesn’t have to be painful, and it can be very productive. Look for issues that you can relate to and figure out how those issues could be addressed productively. American Airlines Team Building Spoof. Email in Real Life. Like or not, email is a part of every day work life. Team process questions: 1.)

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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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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Whole Foods does so by focusing on the health and well-being of people who can afford to pay higher prices for food products. SouthWest Airlines has brought the freedom to fly to ordinary people through lower priced airfares and efficient operations. Their theory postulates eight distinct stages or waves of values development.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In the hospitality industry, services and products are only useful when utilized and, of course, paid for. To remedy this situation in the hospitality industry, a new pricing strategy was developed; the Yield Management strategy. Competitors can also create a distortion in the level of demand for a product or service.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. Starting Up a New Product or Service. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. Developing Teams. Adopting a Process Framework. Reorganizing and Redefining Roles.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 5, 2014

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 to serve. I’d say no.

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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. 7) Scale your values. 10) Compete on behavior.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

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). Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor.

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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. While many major industries have yet to create “IoT” products, that’s not the case with jet turbines.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 23, 2011

Of course, there are many reasons and benefits to taking an extended break from work , benefits that certainly outweigh any loss of productivity or efficacy that inevitably happens when a member of your team is away on vacation. What changes should we make in the upcoming months to ensure we stay on target?

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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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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

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). Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Startups are in favor of the noble goal of protecting workers and their families who need to leave the workplace temporarily, but also apprehensive as it can impact on costs as they brave lower productivity levels in action-based roles. For a startup low on funds, affording more than three months’ salary for no productive work is obtuse.

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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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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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