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Executive Vision – Leading in an Interconnected World: Transportation

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

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It starts by creating a culture that encourages employees to do what’s right for the customer. For Southwest Airlines, it was about how they could maintain the current schedule with fewer planes. Kevin Freiberg has discovered that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results. Keep it simple.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

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I have learned that strategic planning for crises can avert them 85% of the time. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

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Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Airlines say that delays caused by air traffic controllers cost them a combined $4 billion per year. People are envious of the power, status and wealth of company heads.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

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Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process. No single facet of planning should be done out of sync with the others. From top to bottom, the corporate culture was overhauled.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

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These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Corporate Culture.