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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines is known for its strong commitment to servant leadership. As a result, the airline has consistently ranked high in customer satisfaction and employee engagement. The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development.

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Leadership in World 2.0 is Going to Look a Lot Like World 1.0

Markovitz Consulting

To be sure, if you own cruise ships, an airline, or a live concert venue, you’ll have to deal with serious changes to your business models for a while. And with or without Zoom meetings, leaders will still have to communicate, execute on their plans, and unleash the creativity and intelligence of their employees.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

If you are looking for a good discussion topic at an upcoming meeting, take some time to ask those attending how they would describe the organization's culture. Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. What is Organizational Culture?

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. We have seen this pattern repeat itself far too many times.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. We have seen this pattern repeat itself far too many times.

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How to Lead Employees through Cultural Change

LSA Global

Southwest Airlines) and some strong cultures hurt performance (i.e. Depending on the scope and type of cultural change, some training may be necessary to develop new capabilities. Changing an existing culture requires shifting the day-to-day behavior and mind-set of employees. The Department of Veterans Affairs).

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That’s Not My Job!

Peter Stark

What is amazing is that most DMV employees are seasoned veterans capable of being cross-trained to handle every possible transaction a customer may need to accomplish. Southwest Airlines is a great role model when it comes to team members who can accomplish multiple jobs. So why haven’t more companies made cross-training a priority?