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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. Simply put, any IT professional can tell you, Southwest technology leaders have likely requested an upgrade to their systems for years.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

Modern Servant Leader

Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Invest in Technology Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled. Clearly, excessive cost control at the risk of the companies operational foundation played a role.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part Two)

Lead Change Blog

They will then operate on those realities, often in support of elevating their own and other people’s behaviors and actions. Reality Check #5: Leaders Have to Be Willing to Listen to Constructive Feedback—Especially the Kind They Don’t Want to Hear. We might fear loss of respect from our peers or subordinates.

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How to be a Great Boss: 9 Ways to Get a 5-Star Rating From Your Team

RapidStart Leadership

Whether a food server, gate guard, or on-the-ground operator, he struck up easy conversations with the people he encountered. In this way he modeled constructive open-mindedness, and encouraged all of us to keep our brains engaged. He talked to the people. He asked them about their job, their interests, and their challenges.

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How to Create a Priorities Map

Modern Servant Leader

By taking the time to map out these priorities you create a constructive perspective of the realities in your operating relationship. What would the executive committee priorities of service look like for your company? Does this reflect the gaps in support you see within different teams?

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Remembering Sacred Commitments

Persuasive Powerhouse

They learned how to give constructive feedback to each other and agreed that they needed to assure that positive feedback and expressing points of agreement in a debate were needed. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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The Day 360?s Are Obsolete

Persuasive Powerhouse

At the top of my wish list is that everyone in organizations, from the top to the bottom, learns how to give constructive, strengths-based feedback. While I love your vision, I personally hope that the 360 becomes even more engrained in the businesses in which I operate. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.