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TCIP #016 – Malaysia Airlines Crisis Management with Jonathan Hemus

Melissa Agnes

Malaysia Airlines has suffered through two devastating and traumatic crises this year. These are two major crises, ultimate nightmares for any airline, and Malaysia Airlines faced both within months from one another. How culture, both organizational and national, impacted Malaysia Airlines’s crisis communication.

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Of Course People Aren’t Going to Do What They’re Told

Markovitz Consulting

According to the Wall Street Journal , passengers on Southwest Airlines flight 1380, which suffered an engine failure and broken window, didn’t use their oxygen masks properly. With no kinesthetic training to support the flight attendant’s instruction, it’s highly unlikely that people will do it properly. That sounds about right to me.

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5 reasons to choose strategy consulting over financial advisory consulting

Management Consulted

While you can quickly become known as the expert in a specific area of financing for, say, airline companies, your role is defined narrowly and could quickly become monotonous. 4) Strategy consulting firms offer training that is modeled at top global business schools like HBS and Stanford.

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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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Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

Harvard Business

United Airlines is pledging to train its workers better to ensure that “ employees are prepared and empowered to put our customers first ” in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Company leaders need to offer better employee training on all these points.

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Consultant Ninja: Booz & Company consultant-ese: Management.

Consultant Ninja

All too often we receive renumeration from world renowned enterprises for our broad reaching exotic linguistic constructions, creating internal incentives for the production of voluminous manuals and reports. :-) You must have Black Belt Sensei training! Looking forward to reading your other posts. March 1, 2011 at 9:23 AM. Post a Comment.

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WTF US Airways??!!!

Melissa Agnes

Although some may say this is good publicity, I can bet that senior management over at the airline is in entire disagreement – as are TONS of their customers. Why is it so often that we find airlines at the heart of published gaffes and thoughtless (with major repercussions) posts to social media? Vet, test and train.