Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers : “who influenced or inspired your management thinking and in what ways?” I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking? Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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Deming Management Influence Learning-by-Doing 40

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Our most successful coaching clients are executives who are committed to being great role models for leadership development and for living their company’s values. We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. When Admiral Clark assumed the CNO role, the Navy was not meeting its sailor retention goals.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In this article, we focus primarily on behavioral goals, such as becoming a better listener or more effective at involving team members in decisions. Much of the published research in the field of goal setting involves health-related goals … by Marshall Goldsmith and Kelly Goldsmith. Leaders need to develop other leaders.

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Goal Short-term Long-term Crisis 137

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., paid $850 million in fines in the aftermath of accusations that it had received kickbacks from insurance companies for steering business their way — a scheme at odds with Marsh’s commitment to finding the best deal for customers.

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Incentives Banking Ethics Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In response, more and more employers are providing Employee Assistance Programs (74% in 2012, up from 46% in 2005) and wellness programs (63% in 2012, up from 47% in 2005). Employees are rewarded for following through on their goals with either a reduction in premiums or paid time off. Share success stories and make it communal.

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Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Management journals would not exist if managers were always perfect, so it’s no surprise that HBR has long been exploring the reasons behind manager incompetence and whose responsibility it is to compensate – the boss or the subordinate. This seems surprising since of course every manager is a subordinate as well.

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Kotter Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Course 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. What will be the likely outcome out of the talks? For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

When a Walmart lawyer in Mexico blew the whistle in 2005, senior officers both in Mexico and in the United States allegedly stopped two different efforts by other Walmart employees at headquarters to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry. The Committee then assesses whether senior managers have met those objectives.

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Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s up from 64% having such a report in 2005. In both scenarios, a firm committed to annually donating part of its profit to a renowned charity. However, one scenario said that the CEO only decided to commit after market research confirmed that the donation would be profitable for the firm.

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Incentives Motivation Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. Census Bureau, there were 700,000 fewer net businesses created from 2005 to 2014 than from 1985 to 1994. Successful startups don’t stay entrepreneurial for long. According to data from the U.S.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

In fall 2021, HPU ’ s freshman class was larger than the entire student body was in 2005 and will have access to 62 majors and 64 minors. . Qubein, an alumnus of High Point University, became the seventh president of this 94-year-old institution in 2005. There was no sense of a larger purpose or united goal.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Put The Right Team On The Field - Take stock of your team and their strengths and weaknesses, and ask a few hard questions: Is everyone committed to the new year and the new plan? Sometimes as managers we get too caught up in the big picture and forget to focus on the details. I especially like the #3 on the checklist.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It is important to re-connect to our calling and choose – re-commit – the way forward that will best fuel our happiness and contribution. Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Happy New Year!

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It is important to re-connect to our calling and choose – re-commit – the way forward that will best fuel our happiness and contribution. Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Happy New Year!

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But there are also implications for organizational design and talent management for firms of all sizes. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. These experts are highly briefed on the purpose and goals of the SU organization. Work is freed.

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Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” The blueprint included the company’s purpose, vision, values, and strategic goals, and fits on a single page. Once in place, it both generates commitment of employees and customers and puts the short term and the quarter in context as the immediate building blocks to longer-term goals.

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CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? We need a much broader and deeper understanding of the role of board and senior management in a large, complex corporation.

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Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Consider Brian Welle, a Google manager who needed to roll out a huge initiative to tackle the problem of unconscious bias in the workplace. If Brian started his presentation by proclaiming that everyone is biased, the engineer would likely respond by becoming even more committed to denying any bias in herself. Finding the OK Zone.

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Hovland Sherif Company Audience 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Perhaps we say “can’t&# , not because we feel we legitimately can’t do it, but we’re scared that we won’t actually achieve our goals, and we’ll fail. Aschwin Wesselius May 20, 2010 at 8:54 am It’s not the goal, it’s the way to it. So if can is the goal, the way to it is more important than actually achieving it.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Definition Open-book 388

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. Ren Zhengfei has also credited it with allowing them to stay close to their goals and long-term vision. billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S. dollars).

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Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8