MPUG

AUGUST 19, 2019

Ironically, it was while managing a program to provide upgraded yurts to nomadic people in Southwest China. The Day I Knew I Was One…. I realized that after almost 40 years of doing this type of work, I’d become as nomadic as those on the Tibetan plateau that I was trying to help—only perhaps more digitally so.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 16, 2016

When we do arive late on Southwest Airlines, it's most always due to some Event based uncertainty. The airlines bake this into their schedules. I fly a lot. Many times we arrive early to no gate and have to wait. Rarely in good weather do we arrive late. These are Epistemic uncertainties.

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Agile Coach

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Herb Kelleher of Southwest inspired his team to invent the 10-minute turnaround in the 1970’s when they needed to serve a 4-plane passenger scheduled with 3 planes after they needed to sell one of their planes. Here are more examples: Alan Mulally arguably turned around Ford with a daily standup.

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Velociteach

MARCH 20, 2023

JOHN HOLMES: LaGrange, Georgia, yup, just southwest of Atlanta. We also have a seed company based just south of Portland, Oregon. BILL YATES: You are located in LaGrange; is that right? LaGrange, Georgia? BILL YATES: For some I think they know it as LaGrange. Those are for the fancy folks.

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ActiveCollab

MAY 23, 2017

Instead of retelling the same old stories about best teamwork practices from companies such as Google, Chevron or Southwest airlines (which don’t really help when you have a small-to-medium team), we decided to find real world examples of successful teamwork.

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Project-Management.pm

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Magazine, is a big fan of servant leadership, based upon what his decades of research on what he calls “high-performing” companies – Southwest Airlines, Whole Foods, Best Buy, UPS, and more. Peter Economy, author, speaker, and columnist with Inc. Here is what he found.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Examples include Southwest Airlines, and W.L. Within traditional pyramid structures, there is as much freedom as possible with  who ,  what  and  how  goals are accomplished. Gore and Associates.

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PM That Works

AUGUST 8, 2020

I'll never forget, one of my favorite answers to that was with Howard Putnam, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines. He says, in southwest, we actually always hired for attitudes rather than skills, because you can train the skills but you can't train the attitude. And it was interesting. Like we talked about that.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 25, 2021

You’ll get to hear interviews with people from companies such as Zoom and Southwest Airlines and their take on building culture. Join the author Ron Lovett as he discusses the one HR topic that interests him the most – company culture.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Southwest US. . $103,047. [7]. On average, it takes 7 years in the profession to go from entry-level to managing large, complex projects. [7]. Average Salary of Senior-Level PM by Region: . 108,300. . Southeast US. Midwest US. Mid-Atlantic US. 110,096. . Northwest US. 101,446. . Northeast US. 103,511. . Outside US.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

I’ve been attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) conferences since before Twitter’s breakout year in 2007. Later, many of these events seem to be considered the startup’s “launch,” advancing the misconception that a big bang launch is a prerequisite for success. In none of the companies we analyzed is this more apparent than Twitter.

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PM That Works

APRIL 18, 2020

So it's like, I was at Southwest Airlines or I was at Microsoft. Keller Williams is a real good. You know, by the way, um, there's a whole thing I could go into in luck. But Keller Williams being a winning strategy was great for me. But before you, you know, before people get lost in luck versus not luck.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2016

I’ve been attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) conferences since before Twitter’s breakout year in 2007. Later, many of these events seem to be considered the startup’s “launch,” advancing the misconception that a big bang launch is a prerequisite for success. In none of the companies we analyzed is this more apparent than Twitter.

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