The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Last week’s review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet generated a good LinkedIn discussion in The Letter Leader. Most civilizations have conjured up some theory of decline from a perfect original state that underpinned their prevalent belief systems.

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Energy Belief Systems Health Care Resources 52

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 26, 2020

safety net is so connected to work, and then you have this huge shock to employment, you have a system that’s not prepared to handle such a big change to the employment system … It results concretely in family stress and strain, and then that strain and stress relates to negative outcomes for children and families,” the researchers say.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

We started in 2005 working with a lot of multinationals that were globalizing, seeing much of their future growth coming from new markets and needing their leadership teams to reflect a deeper understanding and representation of these places and cultures. The HR Digest: You’ve been recognized as a thought leader and innovator.

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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. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. He has been instrumental in developing enterprise operating systems for EOS Worldwide, Accenture, and The Balanced Scorecard Institute.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

Nonetheless, there are ways in which the current ineffective systems can be improved, as evidenced by a new study from Carnegie Mellon, which shows that upping the availability of temporary work visas considerably cuts down on the number of illegal migrants, and is usually more effective than more punitive measures.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Look for an intuitive organization system that can be shared on your network. Some document management systems have a complex interface that looks like you’d need a database expert to help you extract a receipt. You can get a system that makes sense – a simple, intuitive electronic file cabinet that anyone in your network can access.

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Curious Cat

JUNE 9, 2015

Box with me, Innovation, Quality Engineering, and Statistics. William Woodall shared this wonderful article he wrote with George E. My thoughts on being able to read it online: Thanks Bill, it is a great article. And thanks for having it openly available.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Edwards Deming Institute 3rd Quarter 2005 Newsletter. This comes from a consistent effort and the proper systems-in-place to attract trust and for people to follow along in conjunction with , where the organization and management is heading. Do you have any examples of systems that continuously create improvements? My Thoughts.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. Although we certainly need systems, processes, technology, and a host of other tools and platforms to accomplish our goals and objectives, none of these are a suitable substitute for the power of people working toward a common, compelling cause.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. This system caused gas stations a big problem - "drive-away customers." One of their first course offerings in La Jolla was the "Targeted Innovation" course, and they wanted my help. And, oh yeah - the price of gas.

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Creativity Brand Management Participative Course 81

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. It isn’t a cookbook with a recipe it is a management system that must be thoughtfully adapted for your organization. Improve supervision. Supervisors need time to help people on the job.

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Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The summary, as he outlines it is: The market rarely rewards off-the-charts creativity that comes from another solar system. It’s more likely that a successful innovation is already in the works somewhere. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) Just think like them but be bolder and faster.

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Licensing Newsletter Creativity Entrepreneur 28

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

world, the “real estate&# needed to do these things was the operating system. The power is slowly being taken away from the operating system. Posted in the Business Models , Innovation category. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) In the web 2.0

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Real Estate Competitive Advantage Slywotzky Licensing 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. I proposed that we scrap our existing points-based attendance system and the requirements to attend. Guest post by Mark Graban.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

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). Too many healthcare workers don’t understand the system or value stream that they are a part of.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

That’s why Google created its Founders Awards to provide stock worth up to several million dollars as an incentive to innovation. But our research shows that high-powered rewards are no better than low-powered incentives at producing radical innovations. is far from settled, even after years of research.

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Innovation Incentives Comparison Power 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. For investors and corporations, the big takeaway is this: You can no longer look only in your own backyard for startups, innovation, and the talent that power them. Jakal Pan/Getty Images.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Being a fan of Peter Senge’s book on Systems Thinking “ The Fifth Discipline “, the incident just proved (again) that it’s not learning alone but applying what you learn that makes a big difference. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Licensing Senge Newsletter Blog 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. Establish a value assessment system. In 2005, ”Frontline” introduced Americans to the PlayPump. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” Keep track.

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Team Metrics Project Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system. Systems that work in labs and boardrooms will have hiccups in stores that require troubleshooting. In 2005 alone, Home Depot spent $1 billion on automating merchandising and store processes.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005. PureIt became a grand market success in India, winning a Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award and acclaim in UNESCO's Water Digest.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Looking for innovations they could reapply, Essilor built upon the model of mobile cataract surgery vans that first made these surgeries affordable to the masses. By using another innovation management best practice, they analyzed their system and found that the opticians themselves were the most expensive piece.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When these things work together, they create what we call a capabilities system: examples include Frito-Lay's direct-to-store delivery, Disney's genius for developing and commercializing family-friendly characters, and 3M's incremental innovation machine. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. IBM-Lenovo.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images. Many governments are currently rethinking their policies regarding cross-border data flows. Data Is Deglobalizing.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy — which generate profits that we invest in innovation!" I aim to change that. Who could argue with that?

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Maturity Energy Consultative Construction 11

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 Michael Cuthrell.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Another ripe area for innovation is knowledge management and the impact of social media.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

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. Even more astonishing? As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. Actively prune what is past its prime.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14