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In 1994, Continental Airlines was running at a loss of nearly $55 million a month and was on the verge of filing bankruptcy for the third time in a decade. Moreover, in terms of overall quality and customer satisfaction, the company was rated worst among the nation’s top ten airlines by a wide margin. Then, Gordon Bethune took over and within months managed to engineer one of the most dramatic comebacks in business history - a comeback characterized by record breaking profits and performance. From Worst to First is Bethune’s story of how he and his team accomplished this amazing feat. It provides valuable commonsense lessons on leadership, employee empowerment, teamwork, and strategy that all business professionals can apply to any type of business.

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