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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

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Herb Kelleher's Legacy at Southwest Airlines: 5 Important Lessons

Michael Roberto

Source: Southwest Airlines Yesterday, Southwest Airlines co-founder and long-time CEO Herb Kelleher died at age 87. Here are five simple, yet powerful, lessons that come to mind as I reflect on the Kelleher era at the airline: Make tradeoffs. At Southwest, Kelleher chose to run an airline in a very different manner.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Culture Flaunting – Use Internal Culture to Create External Differentiation. The airline created branded packets of chips, candy and cereal bars that doubled as tickets for a Transavia flight.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Culture Flaunting – Use Internal Culture to Create External Differentiation. The airline created branded packets of chips, candy and cereal bars that doubled as tickets for a Transavia flight.

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The Value of One Good Idea

KindlingApp

Everyone wants an innovative company culture, and anyone seeking to build one can turn to any number of resources, from Harvard Business Review , Fast Company , and Forbes to Kindling’s blog , that offer advice on building a culture of innovation. Why does culture find itself on the backburner so often?

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Strategy to Execution to enable Intelligent Enterprise

Rmukesh Gupta

The people who define strategy should also look at the skills gap, the culture gap and the execution gaps of the past, see if there is anything that has or is expected to change, owing to specific decisions made by the executives before defining their strategy. . A good strategy is one that can be explained in a short 3-4 sentences.

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Coopetition

CREATORS

the similar pursuit of collaboration and competition between firms producing or developing complementary or related products. The motivation to engage in coopetition can vary: Competitors may aim to increase the size of the current market, create a whole new market, become more efficient or improve their competitive position.