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Southwest Airlines’ Julie Weber on What It Means To Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

HR Digest

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. I believe that Human Resources is my calling.

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

The Human Resource industry has seen some significant changes in the last two decades. Here is a list of HR leaders who are bringing in diversity, engagement, and innovation to their jobs. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer in introducing agile technologies in human resource processes. Diane Gherson, CHRO of IBM.

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Boldness Should Never Stand Alone

In the CEO Afterlife

We don’t want airlines, oil riggers and gas pipeline distributors acting bold. Bold Innovation. The bolder you are in the search for innovation, the more likely you are to unearth the big idea. I’ll compare this to the “fire, ready, aim” approach of innovation. Here’s my point. Sorry folks, this is a bit of a given.

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Why I cringe when people say “hire for fit”

Surviving Leadership

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. It breeds innovation. Listen, I’m a big fan of being intentional about the culture you’re allowing to develop in your workplace. It pushes the company forward.

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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed. Not everyone or every organization can, or should operate this way. The crossing of every “t” and the dotting of every “i” is critical in hundreds of industries. Leaders and managers who work in these industries need all of the information.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.

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Most industries forced to turn furloughs into permanent cuts

HR Digest

Recent weeks have seen a spate of layoffs being announced by the retail, beverages and the airlines industries totaling nearly 200,000 in number. MGM Resorts International, United Airlines and Coca-Cola are the latest to announce that the furloughed employees have been let go. million, says a MarketWatch report.