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Benjamin Smith is a internationally renowned senior management in the air transport industry. He has worked in Air Canada for 20 years and is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the airline until today.

He began his career at Ontario in 1990 and in 1992 established his own retail business travel agency. He has acquired an entrepreneurial experience for 8 years. In 1999 he was a consultant in Air Canada and finally joined the group in 2002.

Since arrival in 2002, Benjamin Smith has held several senior positions at Air Canada. Prior to joining Air Canada's management team in 2007, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Network Planning Leader.

Through his career, he has strong skills in management, strategy, labor relations management, marketing, finance and administration. In particular, he is a person supporting Air Canada's growth and modernization. Over the past decade he has defined and implemented the Air Canada transformation strategy, launched the Air Canada group's network expansion program globally, and upgraded the equipment significantly in terms of aircraft volume and energy efficiency . As part of its responsibility, I redefined Air Canada's hub strategy and created three major hubs to complement the airline's key markets. Benjamin Smith is also a major promoter of Air Canada, a low-priced brand in Air and Canada, which is internationally successful.

Benjamin Smith has been deeply involved in Air Canada's social dialogue. He personally supervised collective bargaining with the labor union with the Human Resources Department. These negotiations have resulted in a long-term agreement that is convenient for both the historic parties to the airline, its employees and all other stakeholders.

In 2014, he was appointed president of airline company (Air Canada, Rouge, Express, Cargo) and Chief Operating Officer of Air Canada group. He is fully responsible for the Group's sales, operations and customer service. He also directs Air Canada's management and financial performance strategies.

The culture of the company reflects the company's leadership and workplace environment. As a new programmer, working at a company with a strong corporate culture can raise your career to the next level. Once you become a company with a negative corporate culture it will affect the ability to learn and grow as a software developer.

It is difficult to clarify the culture of the company and to fully understand how it is being implemented. As the company grows, much of the initial habits used by the company will create culture with people hired by the company. Although the company can not fully control the development culture, it can control the people employed huge and create culture. One of the most important aspects of culture is that it defines team discipline, how people act and interact with each other. After establishing the norm, it is more difficult to resolve destructive cultural factors.

Everyone knows the importance of recruitment. Everyone knows that the people they hire will decide the culture and prospects of the company. Anyone who has worked at a company regards the characteristics of the company as the performance of the team working there. The company's kindness, diligence, discipline, and effectiveness come from the corresponding characteristics of the team that manages it. Great men will become great men. However, many entrepreneurs failed to grasp the inevitable consequences of this. They did not notice their superiority is their company's advantage. The same can be said about weakness. Their professional ethics, skills, interests and values ​​are the same as the company's overall skills, interests and values. What kind of person will the founder become?

Ignore the recognition of companies outside the company (unless it is negative). When a person outside the company says "The company is wonderful," it means simply that the company is doing good publicity. The chief executive officer (CEO) is an excellent leader. There is little explanation about the content of employees and their products.