Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

He gave 35 lectures in the summer of 1950 to engineers and to top management. One trouble with American industry today is that top management supposes that one lecture or one day will do it. Edwards Deming Institute 3rd Quarter 2005 Newsletter. There are NO quick fixes to Management and Quality. It is not so simple.

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Quality Deming Productivity Products 116

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. N2Growth helps companies transform information — and automate it — in ways that lead to the creation of unique value add and competitive advantages for our clients.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. It is the job of virtual management to ensure that those necessary relationships amongst the team, no matter how geographically distant, are supported and maintained.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. It is the job of virtual management to ensure that those necessary relationships amongst the team, no matter how geographically distant, are supported and maintained.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The HR Digest: How has Walgreens Boots Alliance responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure employee safety, managing relationships with clients, collaboration with industry leaders and internal workforce management? plant as the Human Resources manager.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

The interview also explores EY’s innovative talent management approach, leveraging AI for recruitment and lifelong learning opportunities. EY has a consistently received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) since 2005, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2020

The largest to the smallest companies are quite happy to allow you to log in from home to keep the office fires burning. Moreover, for companies that have a global presence, hiring the best talent wherever available gives the leeway to be connected 24/7 to someone at work in some part of the globe. Program Manager. Accountant.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2013

Further consider that four out of ten newly promoted managers and executives fail within 18 months of starting new jobs, according to research by Manchester, Inc, a leadership development firm in Bala Cynwyd, PA. Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005). Make him/her feel welcome.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. He was the CEO of two New York publishing companies, Tudor and Knightsbridge. About the Author.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 7, 2016

After all, is anything more valuable to a company than the way its people spend their time and energy? Deep alignment means fashioning an organizational culture in which support of people’s ongoing development is woven into the daily fabric of working life and visible in the company’s regular operations, daily routines, and conversations.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. High-potential women often operate under the radar.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

have risen more than 50% from 2005 to 2017 and now exceed deaths by motor vehicle incidents. Emotionally, and physically, we feel much better when our bodies operate in an ongoing state of homeostasis. With the exception of America , suicide rates over recent decades have declined in most of the world. Suicides in the U.S.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Can for profit companies adopt a starfish model? Handy’s (1998) shamrock organization might provide the right blend of centralization and decentralization to make it worthwhile for for-profit companies. New York, NY: Portfolio.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole? A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Get a fresh perspective.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

As a leader, my role in my company and in my community is to speak intelligently about the causes, values, and ideologies in which I believe. If you stand behind the microphone before your company at the annual shareholders meeting and pontificate about principles, but don’t actually live by those principles, then you are a performer.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : I love it.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : I love it.

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system. What matters is how you operate. I wrote about this on my personal blog in 2005, Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship. Point 4 in W. You need to treat them as partners. Many others still have not.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. Although he was personally disappointed, Marshall remained working for the president as army chief of staff and appointed Dwight D. It takes an extraordinary personal sense of one’s duty for someone to make a sacrifice of the magnitude made by General Marshall.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 21, 2012

The new leadership approach Jim describes Amex has used since he took charge of this role in 2005 provides powerful data and examples of how leading a customer focused culture can have a major impact on organizational performance. In the past, 75% of it was on how, technically, you complete the transaction.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Restructure training.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. A case in point is TheraMatrix, a small Michigan company. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. CEOs of midsized companies I’ve come to know over the last 30 years share the same dream. But they are far more cautious, as they should be. And plenty do. The second reason is more important.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Research by McKinsey shows that, on average, 30% of corporate earnings are at stake when it comes to a company’s relationships with society. The VW scandal, among others, highlights the continued failure of companies to engage successfully with the world outside the corporation. The current model is not working. Map your world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive. In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. Through his seminars, lectures, videos, and books, Dr. Deming shared a vision of systems well-managed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

But the kind of organization that marks our own historical moment is, arguably, the turnaround company. So what does it take for a leader to pull a company out of the doldrums, or indeed out of real or potential bankruptcy? Equally important, it depends on how well they manage communication throughout their organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

But at good jobs companies, these very skills are already demanded, developed, and put to use. Mercadona’s store employees are empowered to order products and present them in a way that satisfies their customers and improves company performance. When that future comes, who will have the competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With those gaps, companies must now focus less on the fixed supply of in-house people and more on the capabilities they need to get work done.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

At Microsoft, for example, the Office and Windows operations have tended to suffocate innovations over the past few decades. In 1998, GM killed the EV1, a battery-operated car, just before a breakthrough in battery technology occurred, in what GM CEO Rick Wagner opined in 2005 was GM's biggest strategic blunder.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!), but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high?

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