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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

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Underinvestment in Technology. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. A company of Southwest’s scale does not get this far behind in technology without repeatedly ignoring the advice of their IT department. Invest in Technology.

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Leadership Lessons in Southwest Airline’s Fall From Grace

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Underinvestment in Technology This was the main root of their problem. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. Invest in Technology Too often, information technology and operational tools are minimized as costs to be controlled.

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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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Yet, were it not for the bad leadership of Shockley, Bell Labs and Fairchild Semiconductor, one wonders if we’d ever have had Intel, the semiconductor as we know it today or even the information technology revolution? or returns massive investments (look at Intel Stock since IPO), what do you do?

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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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