Gary Kelly Essay

For this paper, and from the options provided, I boast selected Gary Kelly, of south-west Airlines. He is the current CEO at souwest, and during his 23 year long venture at southwest he has been able to do macrocosmy abundant things for the participation, making it a place where people wanted to come to work, even on their days finish up. He started out as a controller in 1984 and then moving on to become Southwests CFO in 1989, but it wasnt until 2004 that Gary Kelley was do 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 Garys 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(a) 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 sees to care very much for his employees Id say to the point in which he would sentiment them as family, and he takes care of his family.Throughout the past couple weeks in class we have use southwest as a discussion topic, and in doing this we have seen fair 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 time 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 Schools Friend of the Year, for his strong payload to public education, and his ability to clearly see beyond the sensational headlines, and often negative politics, and understand that the advantage of Texas public educatio n is everyones business. (Pediatrics Week 2008).He has had a commitment to the public schools in Texas, load-bearing(a) both educational organizations and employee volunteer programs. But lets not get away from the great business man he is, one article I read had this to say about him, Kelly has been as aggressive as Kelleher was in his youth and perhaps even more confrontational, combining the instinct of a cockpit killer with the disarming, aw-shucks carriage of the nice guy next door. (Fitzpatrick, 2005) His quick thinking and out bidding his competitors, he was able to procure Chicagos MidwayAirport for around 117 million dollar bid for the assets and gates of the demote ATA airlines company. As well as taking steps to open up flights to both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, in an lather to show that hes more than happy to take on Pennsylvanias master(prenominal) airline US Airways. One of the things I really like about Gary Kelly is his level of respect, in this article fr om Fitzpatrick, it says, Kelly also was not willing to take credit for the airlines recent moves, reflexion it is imprudent to think that one person deserves credit for everything. (Fitzpatrick 2005) But my favorite part of this article was the final sentences in which Mr. Kelly says, Id much rather talk about Herb than me. Hes a legend and hes earned that. Ive been in the job for eight or club months. I havent earned anything. Im just another Southwest employee, who just happens to be the CEO. (Fitzpatrick 2005) Through all of this that I have read about Mr.Gary Kelly, I have intimate that he truly cares for those who work for him, and while he could use his position as the CEO to distort and instill fear into his employees, he would rather treat them all with respect and kindness, kind of reminds me of an old saying my grandmother use to say, you can get more flies with a few drops of honey than a whole cup of vinegar, basically she just said to be kind and that will get you far than had you behaved in a disrespectful way.So far it has worked for Mr. Kelly I am truly impressed with Southwest Airlines and all they have done to ensure the happiness of their customers and employees, he truly is a great man.