Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Marcia Reynolds of Covisioning Transformational Leadership provided Stop Saying Stupid Things.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Your Turn Managing change is a critical leadership skill. “ Just shut up and do your work ” isn’t a path to the future.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2021

The true story is a part of the Southwest Airlines folklore—stories you would retell around the corporate campfire. It was raw leadership unadorned by dressed-up diplomacy or gift-wrapped candor. “Be courageous” is one of Southwest Airlines’ Warrior Spirit core values.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 22, 2023

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. But don’t forget; there are leadership lessons in Plane. We will look at those leadership lessons in this article. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Plane 1. They begin to ask questions.

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Art Petty

JANUARY 4, 2023

There are some painful and painfully obvious leadership and management lessons from the recent Southwest Airlines debacle. The post Hope Proved to Be a Bad Strategy for LUV—Lessons from the Southwest Airlines Debacle appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Deming is spinning in his grave over this one.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

He was the CEO of Southwest Airlines during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. I’m still grappling with Jim Parker’s advice. Jim said, “I don’t think I smiled for two years.” When… Continue reading →

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Brad Jacobs ’ book provides you a treasure trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. So, even if you don’t envision yourself wanting to earn a billion dollars, don’t pass up reading Jacob’s, How To Make A Few Billion Dollars.

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General Leadership

MAY 17, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! The post Where do Leadership and Customer Service Intersect? appeared first on General Leadership. Read more at [link]. Your Team can either make you or break you. John Maxwell.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

As the new CEO of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz on listening: “Perhaps it wasn’t as important that I proved to employees that I had all the answers to every problem. Source: Turnaround Time: Uniting an Airline and Its Employees in the Friendly Skies II. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 13, 2014

A few years ago, Southwest Airlines celebrated its 40th year and was kind enough to share in its in-flight magazine 40 lessons it learned since 1971. airline to offer a profit-sharing plan, in 1974. Employees now own 13 percent of the airline. airline to establish a home page. A crisis can contain the germ of a big idea.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Power of Focused Leadership Leadership is more than just guiding others; it’s about influencing them towards a common goal. This post delves into the importance of focus in leadership and the ways to master this essential skill. The Role of Energy in Leadership Energy in leadership is contagious.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 14, 2017

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. This week you’ll read articles on leadership lessons from United Airlines, 3 leadership truths no one likes to admit, 6 things strategic leaders do, 10 life and leadership lessons you should have learned as a kid, and the double bind of leadership.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For instance, airlines often see poor decision making erupt into public relations scandals. One vivid example is a 2017 United Airlines case in which passenger David Dao was forcibly removed from an airplane that was overbooked. The situation was recorded on video, poorly communicated about by leadership, and quickly became big news.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Jim Parker, former CEO of Southwest Airlines told me, “Don’t set artificial goals for yourself. We forget the expected and remember the unusual. I’ve been remembering something unusual that was said to me about ten months ago. Don’t set goals about the job you want or the amount of money you want to make.” You [.].

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

airport to eat on the plane and then starting the first meal catering service to the airlines, they are really saying, “Take care of customers and look for opportunities to serve.” ” The post Bonding with Customers: The Leadership Side appeared first on Lead Change. When Marriott managers tell of founder J.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. Imagine what might happen if there were different steps for each country, or each airline, when it came to handling Air Traffic Controllers’ (ATC) control transfers.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The American Airlines merger gives us a great example of what do look for in a partnership and what we should avoid. The post Can Small Business learn from the American Airlines Merger? Here are some lessons we can take away from the merger. Choose your partners using a strategic gauge. appeared first on Women on Business.

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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. What does it take to maintain a sense of purpose at Southwest Airlines?

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve flown Southwest Airlines you know they''re tops in airline customer service, driven by a leadership style that creates a company-wide culture where all employees own that culture. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Southwest Airlines Customer Retention Customer Service Customer Value'

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 8, 2018

Servant Leadership in Action: How to Achieve Great Relationships and Results , which I coedited with Renee Broadwell, launched this week and is already hitting bestseller lists. That’s exactly what I hope we have started: a servant leadership movement. We all know the world is in desperate need of a different leadership role model.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines. Southwest is the only large, low-cost airline that hires friendly and approachable employees who have a passion for helping customers. In addition to their pricing, cancellation, and service structure, no other airline comes close.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 14, 2019

And certainly, proactively notifying airlines and pilots that new training was required should have been a no-brainer. Today’s systems are complicated and complex* requiring different leadership capabilities throughout the organization. Apparently, the software could have been better designed both in functionality and UI/UX.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 23, 2014

Southwest Airlines discovered that when they reduced the front line supervisor to front line employee ratio so the supervisors could connect, encourage and coach these employees, front line employees performed better. The post Connect, Encourage and Coach for Superior Performance appeared first on Michael Lee Stallard.

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Miles Anthony Smith

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Aviation Leadership Failures: 37 Worst Plane Crashes in History While many of these crashes happened in the early years of aviation, there have been a surprising number of airline disasters since the new millennium. These videos are a warning to all of us not to get to lazy and complacent in our leadership. READ MORE 4.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2016

Passionate Leadership is Courageous. It comes from leadership that takes its lead from a dogged commitment to a principle as well as an insatiable desire to stand for that principle. Passionate Leadership is Conviction. We are a great customer service organization that happens to be in the airline business.”.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A great leader knew to only employ as much leadership as was needed to influence the outcome. Here are three keys to naked leadership. How would your leadership actions change?” ” What does leadership look like when command and control are irrelevant as leader tools for influencing? ” I asked him.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

He also authored several books on servant leadership. My favorite book is Leadership Jazz. Max opened the book with a powerful story that zeroed in on the essence of leadership. Leadership Coaching' Tony is connecting his voice and his message of over-the-top service with his touch.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. So, even if you don’t envision yourself wanting to earn a billion dollars, don’t pass up reading Jacob’s, How To Make A Few Billion Dollars.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 23, 2020

In respect to leadership, the core element upon which everything else is built is TRUST. Here’s a picture of what TRUSTworthy leadership looks like in turbulent times—and, as it turns out, it looks like this in “normal” (whatever that ends up being) times, too. What does your team’s attitude reflect about your leadership?

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 9, 2014

Imagine buying a full vacation package for your anniversary through a major airline. Then, when booking your flight, that airline chose to seat you with strangers rather than your spouse. If that is not possible, the vendor may consider allowing us to pick our own seats, as Southwest Airlines (a servant leadership company ) does.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

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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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 30, 2017

Now, in the case of Pepsi and United Airlines, the typical focus tends to be on them being examples of failures in crisis communication. Namely, that trust is not a transitory value, but should serve as an unyielding cardinal point in your leadership [ Share on Twitter ].

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 3, 2019

Herb Kelleher, the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Southwest Airlines , passed away today (January 3rd, 2019). Herb was among the greatest examples of servant-leadership in business. For more on Herb: Steve Jobs vs. Herb Kelleher – Hero Worship vs. Servant-leadership. Thank you, Herb. Herb Kelleher Quotes.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 16, 2011

I always look forward to my flights on Southwest Airlines. That's because I get to read Gary Kelly's (Chairman, President and CEO) monthly column in the airline's in-flight magazine. This month, Kelly speaks to Southwest's Core , a core of values and company culture principles that leaders should emulate.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 23, 2014

I’m honored to chat with one of my leadership mentors on my latest More Human Leadership Podcast - author, keynote speaker and consultant Steve Farber. Here are the main points we cover during the podcast: Steve’s “defining moment” when he knew leadership development was his passion.

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Art Petty

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The experience for the consumer—good or bad, reflects the organization's management systems from values, commitment to hiring, leadership development, and operations effectiveness. For the management of business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations, the retail or service location is, of course, the ultimate proving ground.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 14, 2019

And certainly, proactively notifying airlines and pilots that new training was required should have been a no-brainer. Today’s systems are complicated and complex* requiring different leadership capabilities throughout the organization. Apparently, the software could have been better designed both in functionality and UI/UX.

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