QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

Unwanted complexity, bureaucratic structures, complex systems, increased time on unproductive activities, rework and time spent on things that may not contribute directly in delivering value. Somewhere, in this process of constant realignment and improvement, ‘waste’ is introduced.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is often misunderstood.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Peter Senge has done some amazing work on organization development and systems thinking. Creative Leadership Requires The Right Brains By Tanmay , January 10, 2011 @ 1:36 pm @Thabo - Thanks for the chiming in Thabo. Best, Tanmay By Maria Payroll , January 17, 2011 @ 7:55 pm Great post. What about you? What are your lessons?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? "False" beliefs, a lack of sincerity, or any belief system that is not genuine can be harmful. Let me ask you to spend a few minutes and mull over the following questions: Do you understand the difference between success and significance?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Regardless of whether your firm embraces a meritocracy, a tenure based system, a highly sophisticated compensatory system, or some form of a benevolent dictatorship, bonuses are always an issue.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. You assume that the person asking the question is always right. But are they?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2012

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? Spread awareness of your quality beliefs and systems by designing e-bulletins or newsletters. Set up a reward and recognition system to promote right behaviors with respect to quality of products/services delivered to customers.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system. Leaders need to have a passion for what their company does or creates, not just a passion for the money it can make. Leaders need to have an profound appreciation for all the people working for them and the skills they bring to the table.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

But to enable them for better performance, to make them effective, a system needs to be created. A system comprising of interconnected processes that act as a tool people use to execute their work. In my view, when we create a system, it automatically addresses process, information flow and work flow.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Or if they do-more times than not, it’s impersonal and relies on a rating system-not the feedback itself. The best source is the customer and yet companies would rather do anything but ask a customer their opinion.

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QAspire

AUGUST 29, 2010

Isn’t it better to take a more detached view of work; to see that you are only part of a bigger system? Then, seek to fully play your part in improving that system for the benefit of your customers? If I identify myself with my job and then lose that job through redundancy, what happens to my identity?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Have they been fudging their research for years?

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Super Seven From The Collection of Michael Wade Michael Wade is a GREAT blogger I have been following since 2006. He was the first blogger to have linked back to this blog way back in 2006. Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

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QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

We grow up on stories, so do our belief system and our world view. Stories reinforce the belief system. The stories I heard in my childhood, and the messages therein, are still afresh in my memory. My daughter almost gets hooked when a story is narrated. Inspire them with stories about the organization. Show them the future.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Bottom line : You form a strategic reward system when you integrate performance (results) and behavior (how those results were achieved). So the critical question is: “Is your performance management system driving the right behaviors for the organization?” I am worried about “strategic reward systems.&# Share feedback.

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QAspire

AUGUST 1, 2010

While all these things were known and read somewhere, a lecture like this with successful people helps a great deal in reinforcing them to your belief system. These lessons (and more) were nicely wrapped in powerful personal stories that engaged the audience.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

John Hunter’s quick tip : Change How Your Business Changes where he shares, “ The key to good management systems is how rapidly improvement is achieved, not that improvement is being made. Nope, I’m A Writer by Terry Starbucker: Terry goes over the roof top and says that he is a writer, not just a blogger. He says, I do it because I love it.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity. So, now throw on top of that a few hundred Facebook friends and hundreds or potentially thousands of twitter followers and things start getting complicated.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Regards, Jay Chhaya By Conor Neill , September 3, 2010 @ 1:33 pm Barbara Minto was the creator of a system of communication that is now the “norm&# at most top consulting companies. Thanks again for sharing that system of communication. It’s just the way we share and take them, that matters. Have a nice weekend ahead!

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. AAPL) the iPod, iPad & iPhone are cherished as innovative and beautiful products. But Apple does not manufacture them. Apple truly defines next practice in all of these areas. But manufacturing?

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QAspire

JULY 20, 2010

Use productivity tools, reminder systems, whatever. Keep Commitments : Consistently meeting your commitments is a great way to build trust. Clients love it when you ship on time. People love it when you keep your promises. But keep your commitments. Give Respect : Trust and respect go hand in hand.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Culture of a team or organization forms an eco-system for people to deliver great results. Thoughts and deeds of a leader set examples and precedence for others to follow and emulate. Long after a leader is gone, these examples and precedence stay on. Hence, culture is at the very core of a quality oriented culture.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

An excerpt: The purpose of any quality management system is to build a quality oriented culture (internal goal) and deliver exceptional value for money to customers (external goal). The beauty of the short “micro” entries is that in many cases they are designed to invoke our own thought processes about the topic instead of just instructing.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. But I have been doing people and project management for years.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Friday, February 4, 2011 Do You Have This Much Passion? 2006 photo by Vincent Munier It appeared on page 80 of the January-February 2011 issue of Audubon magazine. 2006 photo by Vincent Munier It appeared on page 80 of the January-February 2011 issue of Audubon magazine. Then you know how hard this can be.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. Of particular note, I remember receiving the call that a young technician (Allen Bandy – sp?) He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Here are a few reasons I could think of: Checklist can be a progressive database of your knowledge on building certain type of systems. Checklists are indispensible in a business setting, specially when dealing with production systems that demand consistent outcomes. Howard at Wall Street Journal. " My Learning?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As you point out though we are now faced with a culture of political correctness> It no longer comes just from the "top" but is deeply ingrained in our belief system, especially when it comes to work environments. I don't think you are in the minority in your view.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there. Our educational system, family, societal status, etc indoctrinates biases). We all experience it, and both the introduction and experience are better when it occurs naturally and not via contrived mandates.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Much has been learned in the professional world about quality, which could be useful to our educational system. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp. Liker and James K.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., since 1987. During that time, all my work has been focused on helping people learn and grow stronger for the challenges of life and work. Click HERE to read more. About "Personal Strength".

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule. The initiative should have a beginning, middle and end.

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