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Can Small Business learn from the American Airlines Merger?

Women on Business

The American Airlines merger gives us a great example of what do look for in a partnership and what we should avoid. What strategic partnerships should be born out of is the possibility of creating an innovative new product, the possibility of breaking into an undiscovered market or the possibility of introducing the next big thing.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Leadership Biz Cafe #6 – Andrea Kates on Fostering Innovation

Tanveer Naseer

These days, everyone is talking about the importance of innovation to an organization’s future, but what exactly does it take to be innovative and how do we start? Over the course of our conversation, Andrea and I discuss - What organizations really need to do to be innovative in today’s global market.

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Business Leaders in Denial: Emotional Connections Essential to Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Here is a video from YouTube of a conversation I had earlier this year about leadership, employee engagement, productivity and innovation with Dr. Homer Erekson, Dean of TCU’s Neeley School of Business.

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Henry Mintzberg’s Bedtime Stories for Managers

Leading Blog

The first story tells of an experience he had on the soon to be defunct Eastern Airlines (they went bankrupt in 1991). The financial analysts were certainly reading those statements, and probably explaining the airline’s problems in terms of load factors and the like. Eastern Airlines went belly up because of those scrambled eggs.

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The Airline Industry Struggles To Break Free From Gendered Practices

The Horizons Tracker

The airline industry has made concerted efforts to create a more diverse working environment. “Airline organizations, in part, maintain the feminized cabin by setting strict appearance standards that workers embody,” the researchers explain.

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Recognize Individual Differences in Your Team

Lead Change Blog

I chuckled at the headline in an airline magazine as I planned this article. Leverage their strengths to create a culture of innovation within the organization. “Change is in the air.” That’s a constant, as we repeatedly hear that the pace of change will never be slower than it is today.

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