Valentine's Day Crisis Summary

A quarterly news video, As the Plane Turns, was sent to all facilities to keep employees up to date on company happenings, provide clips of special events, and share messages from customers, employees, and executives. The company had published a book for employees describing “outrageous” acts of service.

Beers quickly exploited her charisma by instituting a process that conformed to Beer, Eisenstat & Spector 's model for effective organizational change. First, Beers immediately mobilized commitment to change through her videotaped appeal to all 7,000 Ogilvy employees, as well as in one-on-one meetings with executives. In addition, Beers gained valuable perspective by meeting with 50 clients in 6 months. In each instance, Beers relied on her charisma to coax shared "expectations and dreams" from internal and external stakeholders. Clearly, by asking each group what they can accomplish together, Beers sought a shared vision of how Ogilvy could organize and manage for competitiveness. Her rallying point: Brand Stewardship.

Jamie Turner faces a difficult situation at Modern Lighting Industries Inc. (MLI). The company is struggling financially and has recently been acquired by a larger firm. Turner was hired as Vice President (V.P.) of marketing and sales by company president Pat Cardullo. Turner was all but guaranteed Cardullo’s position in less than two years when he was hired. However, six months later, the young manager’s future at the company is in serious jeopardy. The root cause(s) can best be summarized as: The denigration of their relationship; which can be traced to two main issues.

I. Purpose for this investigation is to pin-point problems within the Roanoke branch of Phoenix Advertising which have led to the recent resignations of an art director and an account executive, increasing client complaints about quality of work, productivity and demoralization of employees within that branch.

In the film Valentine’s Day, directed by Garry Marshall, it focuses on intimate interpersonal relationships on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is celebrated on the fourteenth of February every year and although Valentine’s Day isn’t a national holiday, it is celebrated worldwide. Knapp’s developmental model is portrayed by many of the couples seen in the film. In this film, age plays a role in the movie to present the differences in how they show the intimacy of their relationships. The Johari window is also used inside of the film to reveal some secrets of many couples. In the film, relationships of many couples are shown to go through heartbreak or the beginnings of a new relationship.

This case study begins with Paul Kennedy on a slow morning commute in Cleveland. During his drive, he’s worried about his wife and family, his boss, his associate, a stranger in a nearby vehicle, and even about the state of the Cleveland Browns. He is also excited about his plans to expand Daner Associates into the European market and his impending promotion to CEO. But when Paul meets with his boss, Larry, that afternoon, he discovers that he has been misreading signals. Larry is actually considering Paul for the number two role in the company and considering promoting another Daner executive, George, into the CEO position.

The critical factors in the successful transformation of British Airways were changing the culture of the organization for the employees and the consumers. British Airways embarked on an aggressive media campaign that helped change the “face” of the airline. Their new tag line was “The worlds favourite airline”. Customer service became the number one priority for all employees. Lead by Colin Marshall, “an enabling culture (was put) in place to allow customer service to come out, where rather than people waiting to be told what to do to do things better, it’s an environment where people feel they can actually come out with ideas, that they will be listened to, and feel they are much more a part of the success of the company” Jick (2011)(p.30). A “Putting People First” (PFF) program was instituted for all front line employees. This helped to unify the employees with the new vision of customer service first for the company. During these two day mandatory meetings, all front line staff interacted with all levels of managers and leaders on an even playing

With increasing social media pressures, Susannah Winslow, the general manager of Downcity Motors, is considering terminating a star salesman, James Kenton, for his inappropriate Facebook posts about the company. Winslow’s family business, Downcity Motors, owns a few luxurious car dealerships, including BMW, Range Rover, and Mercedes-Benz. Due to Downcity’s upscale clientele, Kenton felt that a recent launch for Downcity’s Mercedes-Benz dealership was lacking the marketing edge needed to communicate the value of its products to such affluent customers (Lopiano and Watson 3). During said launch, Downcity offered its clients free soda on a plastic tablecloth, which was an unacceptable marketing strategy to Kenton (Lopiano and Watson 4). As a result, Kenton shared his frustrations with his employer on Facebook. However, this was not the first time that Kenton wrote negative posts about his company. Overall, Winslow is unsure of how to handle

To ensure Allstate remains the market leader in the insurance industry, it’s important to establish a plan of action that utilizes the company’s strengths. Furthermore, this could be accomplished by hiring individuals that represent the Allstate brand. More importantly, management will need to identify the right employee to market the brand. This could be accomplished by hiring knowledgeable, friendly staff that can empathize with Allstate consumers’ needs and circumstances. The seminar instructor spoke on the need to have employees that show empathy (Berney, 2017). Further, empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others (Molenberghs, 2017). Most importantly, Allstate has exhibited strong management over the years.

"The Customer Comes Second" is an account of the management and leadership style of Hal Rosenbluth, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rosenbluth International, a global travel management firm that was founded in 1892 by Marcus Rosenbluth, Hal’s great-grandfather. The premise of Hal Rosenbluth’s management style is just as the title of the book suggests; concentrate on your employees first and your customers second. I found the management practices outlined by Mr. Rosenbluth to be innovative and applicable to all types of business, not just the travel industry. I was also very intrigued by some of the creative employment practices used by Rosenbluth International as well as their fight to stay alive in the travel

Planning: This management performance of Janna Lyons are about “setting organizational goals” and “developing strategies to reach those goals” (Nickels, 2016, p. 187). In terms of establishing the company’s goals, Jenna Lyons redirect the goals of J. Crew to be making “J.Crew fashionable again” and creating “a coherent brand that would drive the business forward” (Nickels, 2016, p. 211). In order to achieve those goals, she applied the strategies: implementing “a new company structure” and unifying “every part of the organization”, she “used teams to unify the company’s brand” (Nickels, 2016, p. 211).

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The goal of this paper is to explain the prominent success of Southwest Airline in the United States through a single case study analysis making use of the McKinsey’s 7-S framework. Developed in the early 1980s at the McKinsey & Company consulting firm by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, this framework looks at 7 internal factors (Structure, Strategy, Systems, Style, Staff, Skills, Super-ordinate goals) which, according to its authors, need to be aligned for an organization to be successful. In this paper, we will analyse each of its internal elements through the case study “Southwest Airlines in 2008, Culture, Values, and Operating Practices”.

Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ ultimately depicts a highly cynical attitude towards love and conventional gestures of affection. The poem uses traditional images of valentine as a starting point, before showing how an onion is much more true to the nature of love. An extended metaphor of the onion is then used to depict Duffy’s underlying implication that love can be destructive on many different levels.

It is necessary that the Great American Northern company understand the importance of how people form perceptions and make attributions because customers' opinions are formed through their interaction with the salesperson over the phone. The Joe Salatino case study reveals a boss whose company is highly successful while at the same time maintaining the potential for even more success. The case study certainly suggests that the company is hugely profitable: Salatino sells more than $20 million dollars in office supplies to more than 60,000 companies. Although the office products are largely indispensable for companies, the case study suggests that the main challenge for Salatino's company derives not from selling the product itself so much as doing a better job of selling than the internet competition.