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7 Ways To Lead Without Uttering A Single Word

Terry Starbucker

(On a side note, this week , on October 5 and 6, I’ll be attending the World Business Forum In NYC as one of a great group of folks live-blogging the event – check out my blog later this week for my reports, and you can also monitor our real-time postings on Twitter by following the hashtag “ #wbf10 “ Thanks!)

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What to think when things do not add up…

Deming Institute

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. By comparison, can you imagine a co-worker who received nothing (data, reports, parts, etc.) “The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive.

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What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Paris Climate Conference

Harvard Business Review

The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. Leading CEOs are seeing the work to manage climate change as a strategic and human imperative.

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Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990?

Deming Institute

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” It had been published in the journal of the Society for Health Systems (an organization I am active with today, including running the Red Bead Experiment at their 2016 conference). Guest post by Mark Graban. The lesson learned?

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. Andy Molinsky.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business Review

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.