Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. In the U.S., That’s the first step in improving processes.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. Keller, 2019. What forms does this take at the company?

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

APRIL 21, 2019

A considerable body of evidence indicates that one reason for this strong safety track record in aviation is due to airlines conducting Crew Resource Management trainings as means to improve team performance. Is it time for management to re-adapt what the aviation industry has developed to the next level?

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

passenger traffic for airlines). Mortlock distills cutting-edge research, high-level management theory, and real-world examples to show how scenario planning can help any business be more resilient, build shock absorbers, and take control of its destiny in Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2024

Their work involves coordinating various logistics activities, navigating complex regulations, and managing unforeseen challenges. They do not usually move the cargo themselves but act as intermediaries between the shipper and various transportation services, including shipping lines, trucking companies, and airlines.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

That’s particularly true in the airline industry. Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high. If you’re going to bet on an airline most likely to soar as travel resumes, put your money on Southwest Airlines. Managers aren’t comfortable with this powerful emotion in the workplace.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. American Airlines competes against Skype and WebEx, not just Delta and United.”. Avoiding this mindset takes courage.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Other research indicates that people are willing to change vendors to do business with people who know how to develop good relationships. Southwest Airlines has garnered loyal customers and employees but making humor a hallmark of everything they do. Good relationships are bolstered by a sense of humor.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2020

To remedy this situation in the hospitality industry, a new pricing strategy was developed; the Yield Management strategy. What is yield management? What is yield management and how does it affect your business? So, really, what is yield management ? You most likely have been affected by yield management.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

My father worked for United Airlines in a variety of executive positions, rising up to becoming the assistant to the president. David Nielson brings over four decades of corporate, Fortune 500, and private consulting experience in organizational change management, leadership development, and training. Nothing of me is original.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 5, 2018

In healthcare, construction, aerospace/defense, airlines and automobile manufacturing, mistakes and accidents can be a matter of life and death. Most managers are intentional about achieving task excellence, but they fail to be intentional in achieving relationship excellence. Theory C: A New Theory of Management.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the past, when I worked years ago in Marketing, we used to comment on how upper management would get their direction — we called it “Management by Airline Magazine” If a CEO or President saw an interesting article on one of their flights, they would always barge into my office and exclaim, “Why aren’t we doing this?

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“As the practice becomes more widespread, the scope for relative performance evaluation will increase – to better reflect management contribution rather than pay for luck”. Use actionable performance measures that reflect the added value that management can bring to influence them. Climate action.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 14, 2020

Recently the CEO of Southwest Airlines took a 10 percent pay cut to help their employees out. Lead from within: Great leaders know that managing uncertainty is a matter of putting themselves in the shoes of their employees and delivering the strong, compassionate leadership they expect. #1 1 N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Think about the way you’re thinking as a management team. Other companies besides Datron and the Servant Leadership Institute that have done this include Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen, Starbucks, Ken Blanchard Companies, Southwest Airlines, and Chick-fil-A. Get out of your office and build relationships with employees.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity. “I Mastercard believes in developing both current and future skills. Julie Weber, Vice President and Chief People Officer, Southwest Airlines.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2016

Southwest Airlines President Emeritus Colleen Barrett says it this way: “We are not an airline with great customer service. We are a great customer service organization that happens to be in the airline business.”. Fields Cookies, echoed the same theme. “I I am not a businesswoman. I’m a cookie person.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). Helping the CEO of Southwest Airlines launch a best-selling book. Getting a book endorsement from Seth Godin.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

With this knowledge, top managers seek ways to improve their employees’ productivity for business stability. Develop employee work performance metrics. There is a need to develop metrics that account for employees work performance. This truly is the baseline for every productivity management.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Strategic leaders must be able to select talent and encourage people in their teams to learn and grow each year through developing additional skills in line with the company strategy, taking on challenging tasks in order to increase their on-the-job education, and so on. Be strategic in your role as product manager.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 29, 2010

You will serve others best by helping them to grow and develop. Yet someone might be grateful to have the chance to do something new as an opportunity to grow and develop. Set an example for self-care and managing priorities. Your followers and your organization will thank you. Talk to them now. Thanks for sharing!

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Decker Communication

JULY 10, 2019

In the majority of the organizations we work with, the focus is at the top: C-level, leaders of business units, or management. In the last few years, businesses began placing learning and development at the top of their priorities, where employees consistently rated communications training as a vital need. What about the mechanics?”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2024

Nuala Walsh , a seasoned professional with over thirty years in investment management, serves as an independent non-executive director, board chair, and adjunct professor of behavioral science at Trinity College Dublin. Airline passengers pay over the odds for a seat rather than risk random allocation in 33B.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2016

In June, I found out that Captain Denny Flanagan, of United Airlines (UAL) retired after 30 years with UAL and 20 years Navy before that. PROLOGUE: I wrote this over 9 years ago. The CEO of United, Oscar Munoz, came to the airport to greet Captain Denny on his final flight. A McDargh says to a Flanagan, “Keep up the great work.”

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Squeezing another penny out of costs, getting product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers’ inquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share–those are the obsessions of managers today. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2016

Black Box Thinking refers to the flight recorder found on every aircraft in the airline industry. David Brailsford, the general manager of the British cycling Team Sky put it this way: “People think it is exhausting to think about success at such a high level of detail. How do we react when something has gone wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. Because the airline had the option, but declined , to pay about $10 per flight for real-time access to it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

New emotional and social intelligence research from Hay Group has shown that Empathy , Conflict Management, Self-Awareness and Influence are all key skills required for effective leadership in the matrix environment. Less than one third (31 percent) of individuals were found to hold strong conflict-management skills.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership. Ed Bastian of Delta Airlines comes to mind. What skills should leaders be developing to market this way? Is “heroic credibility” something we can credibly manage?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 29, 2021

He worked as an interior mechanic for Continental Airlines and found a wallet a passenger had left behind in a first-class seat pocket. While that assessment is certainly accurate, it is also true that the people of Ford achieved that outcome by mastering Mulally’s Working Together: Principles, Practices and Management System.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Then the authors compared those companies—Amgen, Biomet, Intel, Microsoft, Progressive Insurance, Southwest Airlines, Stryker—to similar, but less successful, "control" companies: Genentech, Kirschner, AMD, Apple, Safeco, PSA and United States Surgical. They zoom-in and zoom out to manage risk and recognize luck.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2015

The first step towards customizing your change management approach is defining your change. In order to improve results, a manufacturer sought to involve more people in developing and implementing creative solutions. A non-profit organization developed a new way to engage volunteers. Developing Teams. Change Management'

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use lots of “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring but their rhetoric is heartless and empty. . ” Ya gotta love it!

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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