what the airline industry can teach us about leadership
Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella.
1st ed
New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
(x, 248 pages) : illustrations
The Guggenheims : promoting aviation in America --;Juan Trippe's early entrepreneurial efforts --;C.E. Woolman and Delta Air Lines --;Juan Trippe and the growth of international air travel --;C.R. Smith and American Airlines --;William "Pat" Patterson and United Air Lines --;Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines --;Gordon Bethune's revival of Continental Airlines.
This book reveals how leadership evolves through the story of the American airline industry across the 20th century. Entrepreneurs dominate the industry's early history, but as the industry evolved a new breed of managers emerged who built a dominant business model that enabled their companies to grow dramatically.