Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Michael recently attended the Business Growth Expo where Jack Santiago of Disney shed some light on their approach to people management and shares the key points he took away from Jack's presentation.   Enjoy!

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CO2

JUNE 17, 2013

Before long, you were promoted to a management position. The airline industry has found, for instance, that under stressful conditions pilots who go into command-and-control mode have a higher failure rate than those who ask for feedback from their crew before making any decisions. Leading Others Teamwork at Work'

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We’re trying to figure out why some industries seem to be more resistant to others. That’s what happened, remember, in the airline industry. It was a crash deregulation in the late ‘70s, and you had this crazy … All the airlines, suddenly everybody became a national airline. LARRY: Here it is. What do they do?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” Others will resist getting in the car at all. It’s often the stress that people resist, not the change itself.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Two years in, Stayer fired three top managers because they kept deferring to him. ” Stayer soon became the darling of management gurus.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s look at an example that most of us directly interact with for hundreds, if not thousands, of hours annually: the airline industry. Pilots are a critical pool of talent for an airline; there must be a sufficient supply with appropriate skills to operate the airline.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, when discount airlines started entering different markets, incumbent carriers typically panicked. They’d drop fares on all of their daily flights on the city pairs served by the discount airline. In these sleep-deprived “we are losing sales now” situations, managers need to resist the Pavlovian urge to “cut-prices-now.”

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

A careful look at what happened to these deals leads to three lessons for managers contemplating mergers in the future. Baker Hughes had resisted Halliburton’s overtures for months before agreeing to the deal, fearing that it would not pass anti-trust muster; it accepted the offer in the end only with a large break-up fee of $3.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. ” Metric obsession. In the sense that results count, and their quantification is desirable, it seems irrefutable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

A community-driven business doesn’t have to run itself the way its community does, any more than an airline’s backoffice should be run by two people in a cockpit. Second, the Reddit turmoil should be understood first and foremost from the community’s perspective, not management’s.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Students, workers, and retirees are protesting, targeting trains, airlines, retirement homes, universities, and government offices. One year after Macron’s election, Le Monde writes that he “resists in opinion polls, despite fragilities.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Senior leaders must be ready to open up the flood gates so managers and employees closest to the client interface can surface these tensions and discuss them openly. The leadership of the change effort can’t end with the top team, the top 100 managers, or the top 1,000 managers. But it doesn’t end there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

This must mean the death of several airlines, the loss of thousands of hotels and restaurants, the disappearance of millions of tax dollars, and the dissipation of nearly a half million jobs (assuming that we are going to lose 20% of the 2.2 The real damage comes to airlines and hotel chains, the former never robust at the best of times.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

But the best CEOs resist the desire to chase the next shiny object. CEOs can waste a massive amount of time simply tending to the egos and petty squabbles of professional managers―time better spent connecting directly with the front line and solving their needs. The same messages must be repeated again and again ad nauseam.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders. In fact it was a truly bipartisan coalition that drove the de-regulation of the trucking and airline industries in the 1970s.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Management is a lens. Many have observed that companies can have admirable goals; but, if poorly managed, success proves elusive. Suppose the management lens was smeared, even opaque. In this case, management could easily misapply resources. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Stand for change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. Thoughtful communication is also important.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between. Southwest Airlines has prospered by being “the fun low cost airline” and seeks to be nothing else.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

So leaders need to treat new initiatives not as mere organizational governance, but as a grassroots movement of small, interconnected groups, each with varying thresholds of resistance—some enthusiastic, others hostile and many in between. Southwest Airlines has prospered by being “the fun low cost airline” and seeks to be nothing else.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Netflix's Reed Hastings snagged the top slot for his ability to successfully manage a winning business while launching and driving its competitor (in his case, Internet-based movie rentals) with equal zeal. They resist putting the cart of scale before the horse of competence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

At times this belief has led the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin into pretty fierce debates with his intellectual opponents. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management? But the same managers would never admit this in public. But he feeds you.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

According to a study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting, the vast majority of managers believe that “achieving digital transformation is critical” to their organizations. ” Let’s say, for instance, members of your sales team are especially resistant to the new technology.

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