Harvard Business

APRIL 22, 2016

Contrast this model to the one that most companies use to source new talent. ” Organizations whose success is determined entirely by the quality of their talent—sports teams, orchestras, comedy groups—have long realized that these tools are not sufficient to their challenge. Competitions. The winner?

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Consultant Ninja

MAY 4, 2009

Equity Private reflects the worst of the PE industry - an incredibly intelligent person focusing their talents on convincing others that they are the smarter than anyone else through the use of intellectual bullying.". In fact, such machinations inevitably prove detrimental to comprehension and sabotage the imparting of any and all knowledge.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

We are struck by the extraordinary success of family firms that both find talent in the broader families of their owners and attract and retain phenomenal external talent. An even greater disadvantage is the paucity of family talent, particularly beyond the third generation, and limited opportunities for talented outsiders.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

It might be to buy talent. At an airline, one group handles reservations, another is in charge of the website, another handles your miles, and yet another is responsible for customer complaints. But, like bolting on capabilities, bolt-on talent doesn’t work, either.

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Harvard Business

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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They are incredibly strategic, looking 20 to 30 years ahead, to understand how society is evolving, how they can shape it, and how they can get the talent to do this. ” Talent is drawn to them, to help them achieve their purpose. But they don’t just wait for talent to turn up. Disruptive experts.

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Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line. New talent is one of the first requirements, but companies that want to adapt their business model to digital platforms need the willingness to build and manage an entirely different sort of asset. All three options require capital.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. This statistic is alarming, but in fact it significantly understates the scope of the threat.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Forty years ago, passengers didn’t know which airline flew where and when. And forty years ago, airlines had no easy way to find out who wanted to fly somewhere. So paying 10% of their revenue to a human who will use a terminal instead of the passenger using a computer hardly makes sense for the airline.

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Management Consulted

JULY 5, 2015

Your standalone skill and your talent will not go unnoticed, but any analysis you submit will be nitpicked and torn apart if you can’t work well with others. Ok, it may not look exactly like that, but it is still very important for you to get the point we’re putting across.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. Consulting as an occupation has given me a unique opportunity to continue learning at a rapid pace, while sharing, teaching, and mentoring like minded and talented individuals. Hence I entered consulting.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” He said while his successor had considerable talents, he failed to conform to these social rules.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. ” Krolick also noted that a meaningful number of United Airlines employees are also pilots—these are super-superconsumers. Unlocking Energy. Building Empathy.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

.” However, we’ve all too often witnessed these intentions morph into “the war for talent” and the proclamation to “hire the best people fast” (as these telling examples of Yahoo and Netscape testify).

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

Likewise, the airlines have demonstrated that well-constructed alliances can be a powerful way to build market position and capitalize on scale. Google (along with its parent, Alphabet) is known for importing talent through acquisition—and Google is a very prolific acquirer.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The best company cultures attract and retain top talent while simultaneously making it easy to execute their business strategy. Examples include Amazon, Southwest Airlines, and TD Bank. This sets you up to align your culture and your talent with your strategy to outperform your peers. Best Company Cultures.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Understanding where those skills overlap and diverge is essential for executives looking to cultivate the next generation of channel management talent within their organizations. The capabilities and qualities that make someone a great sales manager are not the same as those that make an effective channel manager.

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Henman Performance Executive

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Everyone wants lower cost airlines, but unless the airline has done its homework, chances are it will end up in a low-cost war with Southwest and lose its uniform shirt. Exceptional performance starts with talent, but then the discipline to develop the talent takes over and explains ultimate excellence.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In addition, airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) use information from “near-miss” data (incidents or errors that nearly cause an accident) to inform training. A great example comes from the aviation industry. The result is “predictive safety” that relies heavily on the reporting of these mistakes.

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Henman Performance Executive

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Pony Express did not become the railroad, and the railroad did not become the airlines. Vanguards in their days, both the railroad and airline industries thrived. Talent Management. In other words, what got you here won’t necessarily get you to the next level. Coaching and Mentoring. Communication. Corporate Boards.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2018

The founder of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, said it best: “Everything [in our strategy] our competitors could copy tomorrow. An organization must be healthy enough to set the stage for high performance; but health alone will not set you apart from your peers in terms of business results or talent management.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

That airline is biased in favor of pilots with many hours of experience.  Young pilots have to put in a ton of hours because the airlines are biased. Young pilots have to put in a ton of hours because the airlines are biased.  Talent bookers are biased for certain skills and demeanors.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“Inside AT&T’s Talent Overhaul” 5. Low-cost airlines, for example, brought access to their services into previously underserved regions and customer segments, and by providing such access helped sustain public transportation infrastructures. Essential background. Broaden access to basic goods.

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LSA Global

JULY 5, 2023

Examples include hospitals, airlines, healthcare providers, law firms, and road construction. How leaders design and manage organizational risk should align with, and support, its business and talent management strategies. Have you spent the time and effort to determine how much risk makes sense in your unique situation?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Culture’s Impact on a Company’s Success A healthy, high performing, and aligned corporate culture is an emotional energizer and makes talent and business strategy execution easier; an unhealthy and misaligned culture is a drag on performance. Southwest Airlines) and some strong cultures hurt performance (i.e.,

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 30, 2012

About 20% of the time, participants in the training learn some critical skills that improve their job performance (think recurrent training for airline pilots). Talent Management. Another 40% the training addresses behavior change; no behavior changes; so the training accomplishes nothing and costs dearly in time and money.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian’s announcement that in-flight wi-fi would be free for loyalty members went over with flying colors, drawing hoots and rousing applause. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We We define our business as an experience business.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

In school, when you harness the talents, skills, and resources of other people, they call it cheating. Within several months, I had a call from a past co-worker that a start-up airline called Virgin America was looking for a Vice President of Marketing. In life, they call it "using your network." In life, they’re called "connected."

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. million in fuel costs for the airline and reduced emissions of more than 21,500 metric tons of CO 2 over the eight-month period of the study. The implication? An estimated cost savings of $5.37

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

More recently, sports venues, airlines, and others have begun using variable pricing to capture maximum revenue from consumers. Or that it’s relatively easy to make incremental improvements to products through informationalization, but you don’t yet have the right talent for larger innovation initiatives.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Southwest Airlines operates within an industry routinely made fun of for its poor customer service; however, it is known for the opposite. Talent management decisions can be viewed as a more subtle nuance to culture change because decisions are influenced by explicitly stated criteria and unstated value priorities.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The harried commodity providers, the pawns in a monopolistic system that have chosen to race to the bottom, the airlines, the cable companies, the underfunded government agencies–all they have to offer is Road 4. If they had talent, they’d make you go away without actually being upset.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Where people pay to hear my talent. I have met many, some are cool some are not so cool. The only reason I went into consulting is becuase it is the closest I will ever get to being a rock star. I agree once you are cool you are always cool. Which is why I RSS feed your blog! February 11, 2009 at 7:32 PM. Youll always be cool.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JULY 23, 2017

Your Biggest Secret: In kicking off that conversation about the ‘maddest night in history’, I was inspired by a great talent. As they say in the airline safety demonstrations: Put your own mask on first. People complimented them on the unique flavour and the fact that they were distributing free food!

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere.

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