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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. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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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. So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example?

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Could Your Next CEO Come from Any Department?

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Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? Therefore, your organization is best served by looking across the entire company for future leaders. How do you view each department in your organization?

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How Bad Leadership Helped Launch Intel, the Silicon Valley and Venture Capital

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We spend a lot of time here at MSL covering great leadershipservant leadership. In fairness to all the terrible leaders out there, we do have some reasons to be thankful for their horrible treatment of people. Shockley Fails at People Leadership. Fairchild Semiconductor Leadership Fails.

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How to Create a Priorities Map

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For example, Accounting, Finance and Information Technology teams. In business, this will typically include employees, customers and investors. Chances are this is too broad though, and you will need to break these out into specific groups. Establish Weighted Connectors for Priorities.

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