Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Baker Hughes had resisted Halliburton’s overtures for months before agreeing to the deal, fearing that it would not pass anti-trust muster; it accepted the offer in the end only with a large break-up fee of $3.5 This would reduce options for customers (huge oil companies themselves) and may reduce innovation, they reasoned.

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Long-term Short-term Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. This must mean the death of several airlines, the loss of thousands of hotels and restaurants, the disappearance of millions of tax dollars, and the dissipation of nearly a half million jobs (assuming that we are going to lose 20% of the 2.2 Will it happen?

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. Mulally would have none of that.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The 9/11 terrorist attacks; the Mumbai, Bali, and London Tube bombings; the attempted bombing of a Delta airlines flight in December 2009; and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of the personal magnetism of Oussama Bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda cause. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. They wanted to hear about Semco, Southwest Airlines, Gore Tex, HCL. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company.

Management 8

Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” 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. Thoughtful communication is also important.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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.

Strategy 18

Strategy Disaggregation Reis eBook 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In the 1950s, Boeing was an insignificant player in commercial airliners. When Hiroshi Yamauchi took over the company in 1948, there was considerable resistance by insiders to innovation. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.

Management 8

Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between. Southwest Airlines has prospered by being “the fun low cost airline” and seeks to be nothing else.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between. Southwest Airlines has prospered by being “the fun low cost airline” and seeks to be nothing else.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

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.

Ries 15

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Increasingly, businesses need 2-in-1 leaders to help cope with everything from globalization to quickening innovation to shorter product lifecycles. They resist putting the cart of scale before the horse of competence.

Parcell 11

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

” Is it compensation, perks, recognition, or the ability to innovate faster? ” Let’s say, for instance, members of your sales team are especially resistant to the new technology. You’ll need to know “which employees are adopting the technology and which kind of rewards means the most to them.”

Technology 8

Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. It is not, however, the only lens through which to view decision-making.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9