Gary Kelly
For this paper, and from the options provided, I have selected Gary Kelly, of Southwest Airlines. He is the current CEO at Southwest, and during his 23 year long venture at southwest he has been able to do many great things for the company, making it a place where people wanted to come to work, even on their days off. He started out as a controller in 1984 and then moving on to become Southwest’s CFO in 1989, but it wasn’t until 2004 that Gary Kelley was made the CEO. During his many years at with the company he has worked very close with the co-founder Herbert Kelleher, during that time you could say that Herbert was Gary’s mentor, and as it turns out both of them have a few things in common. Both of these men were born on May 12th, both came from middle class families, and both were pretty good athletes when they attended school.
Gary has some great ways he treats his employees and runs his company, and he seems to care very much for his employees I’d say to the point in which he would view them as family, and he takes care of his family. Throughout the past couple weeks in class we have used southwest as a discussion topic, and in doing this we have seen just how great these southwest employees seem to have it. days where employees are more than happy to come in even if they are off that day, and give their fellow employees a break, hiding out and surprising the crews of planes, and offering them snacks and a break while they in turn clean their plane. In one of the videos we watched a video in which Gary Kelly was at a picnic and the employees just came up to him to take pictures with him and just give him a hug, it seems that he has truly made this company a family.
Gary Kelley was even named ‘Texas Public School’s Friend of the Year’, for his strong commitment to public education, and his ability to “…clearly see beyond the sensational headlines, and often negative politics, and understand that the success of Texas public education is everyone’s
Gary has some great ways he treats his employees and runs his company, and he seems to care very much for his employees I’d say to the point in which he would view them as family, and he takes care of his family. Throughout the past couple weeks in class we have used southwest as a discussion topic, and in doing this we have seen just how great these southwest employees seem to have it. days where employees are more than happy to come in even if they are off that day, and give their fellow employees a break, hiding out and surprising the crews of planes, and offering them snacks and a break while they in turn clean their plane. In one of the videos we watched a video in which Gary Kelly was at a picnic and the employees just came up to him to take pictures with him and just give him a hug, it seems that he has truly made this company a family.
Gary Kelley was even named ‘Texas Public School’s Friend of the Year’, for his strong commitment to public education, and his ability to “…clearly see beyond the sensational headlines, and often negative politics, and understand that the success of Texas public education is everyone’s
References: Southwest 's Gary Kelly says airline acquisitions may be on the horizon http://search.proquest.com.ezp-00rrw.lirn.net/docview/463383527/13E380524F9408DA0D7/5?accountid=35996 Pediatrics week Southwest Airlines; Southwest Airlines ' Gary Kelly Named Texas Public Schools 'Friend of the Year ' http://search.proquest.com.ezp-00rrw.lirn.net/docview/212538190/13E380524F9408DA0D7/2?accountid=35996 Fitzpatrick, Dan.(Feb 20, 2005).Like Southwest 's founder, CEO Gary Kelly likes to mix pleasure with business http://search.proquest.com.ezp-00rrw.lirn.net/docview/461600994/13E380524F9408DA0D7/4?accountid=35996