Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Bring products to market at the wrong time or introduce an idea without understanding timing and the “garden” can quickly resemble a piece of scorched earth. Leaders face “El Niños”: market downturns, a coup in Africa, airline strikes, terrorist attacks. Grow, grow. Sell, sell. You name it.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That’s the basis of my conversation with business strategist and author Andrea Kates in this latest episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”. 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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

To adapt to fast-changing market conditions and to respond to complex customer challenges in today’s competitive landscape, companies must innovate. Four Steps to Building Matrix Leadership Skills. Leading in the matrix takes some new skills compared to traditional functional leadership roles.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Their success is the result of an unwavering leadership acumen in the face of a hyper-competitive market. Julie Weber, Vice President and Chief People Officer, Southwest Airlines. Nevertheless, their companies have shown remarkable success as they consistently deliver results. Diane Gherson, CHRO, IBM. Patricia L.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Thirty Lessons I Learned About Leadership. Leadership is a lifelong journey through different experiences every day. This chapter offers thirty lessons as a reflection of my leadership experience. Leadership Tip: Learn how to make small steps while dreaming big. Leadership is not a dictatorship. Oleg Konovalov.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

That’s why I was fascinated by Unfiltered Marketing: 5 Rules to Win Back Trust, Credibility, and Customers in a Digitally Distracted World by Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger. “Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. Ed Bastian of Delta Airlines comes to mind.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

DIY chain Lowe’s, for example, is building 3D printers that print in zero gravity, thus opening up entirely new markets for themselves. Japanese airline ANA commissioned a global competition via the XPRIZE Foundation to create the future of travel that has now resulted in targeting the next big market: Space.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 8, 2012

I’d suggest hearing aids for the executives of BP, AT&T, Bank of America, American Airlines, and Charter Communications (cable TV provider). The power of their market share (much of it gained through acquisition of independent seed companies) has left farmers with fewer and fewer seed choices. Snails can’t hear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We all have personal styles that drive our leadership images. To your team, your work in these areas is every bit as important as how you manage your company’s brand and market share. Do you handle the interpersonal details as well as you do policy nuts and bolts? Here are three ways to help cement your legacy as a great leader.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

A leadership lesson Chip gained from his first job was: inclusion will get you more commitment than control. . Helping the CEO of Southwest Airlines launch a best-selling book. He started a consulting firm in 1980 and says he has been having a blast ever since! Being on CNBC, Fox Business, CNN and ABC pitching a new book.

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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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CO2

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Variety isn’t something we usually associate with plane travel, though–particularly when it comes to watching airlines’ safety videos. “Repetition penetrates the dullest of minds” is an adage that marketers have used and abused over the years, and most airlines are abusers.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 13, 2017

A Lesson from the Un-Friendly Skies of United Airlines. The ensuing bad PR caused United Airlines’ stock price to plunge by 10%, costing shareholders $180 million along with nearly 17 million negative views on YouTube (as of this write-up). One would think United Airlines learned their lesson from that PR fiasco.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2016

A survey of leadership and workplace articles today will inevitably find people encouraging each other to find their passion in their work. One of the best examples of this is the world-famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 5, 2015

In Theodore Levitt’s The Marketing Imagination , the renowned marketing professor said there was no such thing as a commodity, only people who think like commodities. Differentiation is still the name of the marketing game. Several big brand marketers have fallen on their own swords in their effort to drive growth.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They’ll often use another L-word — leadership — in complete ignorance of how their loveless “bottom line” orientation is rooted in pessimism and fear. It’s at the heart of leadership. The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. ” Ya gotta love it! ” Ya gotta love it!

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 3, 2012

And he was confident that he had put together the right leadership team to take them there. Consider the seamless transition at Southwest Airlines when Herb Kelleher stepped down as president because the vision had been internalized through out the company. Personality is not the issue. And when they leave, the magic disappears.

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Management Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’ve been an unapologetic critic of the money losing and seemingly customer hating airline industry for many years. Anyone who has flown a million miles or more has a good view to the workings of this flying bus business (with apologies to bus companies), and the view is mostly unpleasant. Not always, just mostly.)

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2024

Decision-making is not taught, yet excellence is assumed in leadership echelons and corridors of power. Consider how marketeers segment customers or how we rate colleagues as introverts or extroverts with high or low potential. How do these affect leadership decisions? It’s understandable. It’s not our fault. A Polarised World.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. None of us want to see pipelines, oil rigs, or airlines compromising safety for speed.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

At the annual Southwest Airlines Halloween party, CEO Gary Kelly showed up dressed as KISS. When former Alfa Romeo CEO Luca de Meo came from Audi to head up marketing at Volkswagen AG, he realized the global function was filled with gossip and suspicion. Add sprinkles to your leadership! Sprinkles Are Colorful and Fun.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. An airline sending text messages to customers about flight delays or billing departments sending reminder of upcoming invoices are two examples of anticipatory service.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2011

RIM created its industry and through strong market leadership built a world class brand. RIM has been losing market share in the smart phone market to Apple and sellers of Google’s Android system. “Dumbsizing&# doesn’t work and isn’t leadership. Further Reading: Blog posts on Culture Change.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Through both of these exercises, I demonstrated how the growing distractions and communication channels leaders now have to manage in their day-to-day affairs can so easily cause us to drift from the leadership path and direction we originally set out to take. That this is something that only we could do.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2023 curated just for you. Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company. What Hollis did was vulnerable, but it was not leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a result significant business resources are wasted buy an over-reliance on market research that poses only rational questions but neglects to probe customers’ emotional reactions that lie hidden within their answers. He is the author of the book, Empathetic Marketing published by Palgrave. The Need for Caring Relationships.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. 80% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

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LDRLB

JUNE 22, 2010

Prior to entering the private sector as a researcher and consultant, Rick spent a number of years as a university professor where he taught courses in research methods, statistics, marketing, communication, and psychology. Leadership trust' He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State in 1987. How did you define trust in your study?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The answer is for organizations to develop the institutional frameworks to replace traditional structures and forms of governance and establish a more human operating system in which governance, culture and leadership systems are harmonized and synchronized. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 5) Invest in culture rather than governance.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The new business paradigm is rooted in four key pillars: higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious culture and management, and conscious leadership. SouthWest Airlines has brought the freedom to fly to ordinary people through lower priced airfares and efficient operations. feel happier by becoming better organized.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When it came time to drive cows to market, the hot tattoo was a convenient way to identify a particular cow. On Southwest Airlines Flight 22 from El Paso to Phoenix, the flight attendant accepted assistance from two adoring passengers to help pass out peanuts to fellow passengers. And, it is the dream of every brand manager.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. 80% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

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CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

There is a great deal of complexity in the airline coding system, but once you understand this system and how to leverage this information, you will save hundreds of dollars and travel in greater comfort. Yes, I believe that there should be no more overpaying for airline tickets, being stuck in a bad seat, or having a trip ruined by others.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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