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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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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. For over 40 years, Southwest Airlines has been a disruptive force in the airline industry, creating an entirely new category and a record 43 consecutive years of profitability.

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business

In a pricing scenario, for example, your case for investment may first count FTE hours saved by moving away from manual calculations, but the bigger goal is showing how you’re improving prediction accuracy and ultimately how this work is improving margins, share of wallet, or other growth metrics.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business

Metric obsession. In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. A little later, the U.S.

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Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy

Harvard Business

In the 1980s, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined the term emotional labor to refer to the ways flight attendants were trained to present a calm, friendly, and professional demeanor to customers — even if the flyers they were attending to were frightened, angry, or abusive.

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What Retail Can Teach Health Care About Digital Strategy

Harvard Business

Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. These are all very different strategic needs requiring different implementation approaches and performance metrics. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

Examples: How to Scale a Coaching and Training Firm with Mary Ann Samedi. What were the KPI’s or metrics achieved to show that the project was a success? Did you notice how many people were chiming in on the United Airlines incident back in April of 2017? Answering Questions On Your “Ask Me Anything” Page.