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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. What can we learn from Kelleher’s leadership at Southwest? Here are five simple, yet powerful, lessons that come to mind as I reflect on the Kelleher era at the airline: Make tradeoffs. Think systemically.

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The implementation of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework?

Paul Hobcraft

This could include difficulties adapting to rapidly changing market dynamics, a lack of collaboration and integration, inefficient resource allocation, or the inability to leverage emerging technologies effectively. Emphasize the potential for increased agility, faster time-to-market, and improved innovation outcomes.

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The Dangers of Legacy Thinking

Daniel Burrus

For example, Delta Airlines’ entire fleet in the United States was temporarily grounded because of computer problems—the second shutdown over a period of six months also shutting down the carrier’s website and mobile apps. One example is agility—the ability to respond quickly to changing events and market conditions.

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How to Write a Team Vision Statement [Template Included]

CMOE

To be the world’s most loved, most efficient, and most profitable airline. Fersenius Medical A customer focused green energy provider connecting responsibly produced energy for local and regional markets. Fersenius Medical A customer focused green energy provider connecting responsibly produced energy for local and regional markets.

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Analysis Of The Next-Generation Mobility Value Chain

Corporate Innovation

New part suppliers for ACE vehicles will emerge in leadership positions, e.g., NVIDIA, Samsung, or Intel together with Mobileye, which it recently acquired. Based on their already established areas of expertise companies intending to play a role, and more specifically a leadership role, in this value chain must make strategic decisions.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

Digital products in the hands of customers, such as banking, airline or music apps, represent the last piece of the digitization puzzle since many of the back-end systems and processes became computerized over the last several decades. Leadership Mindset A company’s leaders are paramount in driving the organization forward.

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Change Your Thinking, Improve Your Results

Daniel Burrus

Just ask Delta Airlines , the British bank Tesco or any other company whose legacy software caused breakdowns and data breaches. One example is agility, the ability to respond quickly to changing events and market conditions—a seeming silver bullet. Legacy technology is a major headache. Those are certainly major headaches.

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