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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. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Leadership Lessons. If you screw up, own it. Invest in Technology.

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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. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS.

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10 Exceptional Strategies For Extraordinary Executives

N2Growth Blog

In reflecting on my 18 years as a professional resource in strategy, culture and leadership, I want to share 10 exceptional strategies executives can follow and implement to help survive the challenges of growing a healthy and sustainable organization: Have a good partner. Lock up a good partner who thrives on being the best no.

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Rising to Leadership Challenges in Lean Times

Lead Change Blog

Factors include the demand from their stakeholders to do more with less, competition from their competitors, and government regulations to have more regulation and oversight that can cause the cost of doing business to go up. As a result, leaders set their sights on trimming costs and aim to increase market share through better offerings.

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6 Tips to Improve Your Hiring Process

Leading Blog

O NE OF THE MOST significant ways a leader can impact their business is through the quality of their hiring, yet this is rarely listed as a critical leadership competency and often overlooked. but also your hiring decisions, quality of candidates taken on in both the short and longer term. Review your hiring process.

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Leading Above The Line

N2Growth Blog

Watch This Video I hope it provides a new perspective on the leadership vs. management argument. As the video progresses, the orange horizontal line that cuts the image in half is what I refer to as the leadership line. The noise attempting to lift one up above the other is simply more unneeded rhetoric.

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How you treat your Employees will determine the FATE of your company

Brigette Hyacinth

Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor is giving up his pay for the rest of the year, (March 18, 2020, to Jan. Sadly, many leaders don’t care nor do they wish to care because they think caring is detrimental to the bottom line these days. These companies are just focusing on the short term. Consider the long term impacts.

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