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More Leadership Lessons from Delta Airlines
In a recent post, we admonished Delta Airlines for the ill-conceived, confusing Delta Breezeway enacted in late 2007. It seemed that even months after its introduction, most Delta gate agents and Delta frequent fliers still had no idea how to use them.
We are proud to say that between Thanksgiving [...]

Tags: business situations, leadership news and views, leadership observations, management 101

Why Detroit Deserved Their Bailout…
(We understand we’re a little late to the party, but we were on hiatus during the whole Auto Bailout mess, and we felt we would be remiss if we didn’t provide our two cents.)
While there is no doubt that the Detroit automakers sowed many of the seeds of their own destruction, [...]

Tags: Digression, leadership observations

2008: A Lesson in Recession and Leadership
The axiom “sales cure all ills” rings more true today than ever. More than anything it teaches us an inarguable lesson: that is, we learn more about leadership in bad times than we do in good times.
To prove this theory to yourself, imagine your company just 18 months ago [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, Leadership Situations

Sharpening the Saw
One of the greatest leadership lessons of all time, sharpen the saw, comes from the greatest leadership books of all time: Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. (To see our list of the Ten Best Leadership Books of All Time, follow this link.)
The seventh of the seven habits encourages those [...]

Tags: leadership development

“Business Executives” Rank Low in Annual Honesty and Ethics Poll
While nurses topped the list for the seventh consecutive year, business executives earned relatively poor grades in the latest installment of the annual integrity poll from Gallup.
The poll, which surveyed just over 1,000 US adults earlier this month, asked respondents how they would rate the [...]

Tags: Integrity, leadership news and views, leadership rankings

 
Best of the Leadership Development Blogs
The past two weeks on the Leadership Development blogs delivered a middling of mediocrity and only a few top posts. Whether due to the economic turmoil or to some post-Halloween hangover, some of the strongest leadership writers have been quiet. (Luckily, we had a few posts, as did Dr. Earl [...]

Tags: Leadership Blogs, leadership development, Leadership Weblog

 
Old Sayings are Often Gold Sayings
Yes, that hackneyed phrase was as hard to type as it is to read, but I used it to illustrate a point: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; you do reap what you sow; and actions do speak louder than words.
Is it just me, or [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, management 101

 
Phil Savage, Cleveland Browns GM, Responds too Quickly
While email etiquette in business has long been an important topic to the editors of AskTheManager.com, we’ve never pontificated on the importance of responding expeditiously. We’ve posted articles and opinions about email typos, email signatures, and we even ranked the worst email etiquette mistakes of all time in [...]

Tags: business situations, Leadership Advice, management mistakes