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The Cost of Ignoring Employees? 120% Of Annual Income or $0.35 / Share, Southwest Airlines Discovers

Modern Servant Leader

Southwest Airlines just agreed to a $140 Million settlement with the Department of Transportation over the meltdown of Southwest’s systems during December 2022 travel. As a result, the airline had to cancel nearly 17,000 flights and leave an estimated 2 million passengers stranded, during one of the busiest travel times of the year​​.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace. Until the COVID pandemic, Southwest Airlines was the only major, global airline to post a profit every year. All airlines overbook their flights. Southwest’s Response to the COVID Pandemic.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace The holiday winter weather of 2022 caused problems for every major US carrier. In their attempt to remain the most profitable airline, the company substantially reduced spending on major investments. Failing technology.

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I’m Not Naive, We’re Just Cowards

Modern Servant Leader

You think Servant Leadership doesn’t work “in the real world” I guess organizations practicing servant leadership like Southwest Airlines, Vanguard, REI, U.S. Military and many, many more don’t operate in the “real world” As I exclaim the benefits of Servant Leadership, I see that look in your eye.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

Continuous optimization, both on the operational side and the customer side, is good and important -- in the short term. Whatever is currently at the core of the company today, making up the majority of the top and bottom lines, won’t remain the same in the long run. It pays the rent.

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New Manager Checklist Manifesto: Accounting for Everything

CO2

But not every operation at the airport runs with the country’s trademark efficiency. As I was being checked in by SAS Airlines (the airline you might have read about at Harvard Business School), the woman at the counter realized she did not have a priority luggage tag, so she hopped over two other stations to fetch a handful.

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Lessons on Competition from Mother Nature

Curious Cat

This has happened numerous times for major airlines in the last few years. The concept of 100 and 500 year floods is to help us make decisions about long term planning and risks. What is successful now is dependent on the larger system and the conditions that impact that system. But I doubt it.