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Integrating Technical and Human Management Systems

Curious Cat

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. How do different systems—technical or human—work together? How should they work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion. Thanks for stopping by Steve… Rob Mike- Systems thinking can be of high value to leaders.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is more than a semantical issue – it’s become a systemic problem with many individuals and organizations. The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Discipline & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. It will be much easier for us to install the new habit with peoples how have the good experiments. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less. Thanks for the comment Patricia.

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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Put rather simplistically, a business model is the system that defines what creates value, generates growth, and increases revenue and profit within your organization. The primary advantage that a business model has over any number of other strategic frameworks lies in the fluidity of its inherently dynamic nature.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. learning » Leadership thinking [.] paramount place of vision [.]

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The Disconnected CEO : Unlike CEOs who understand how to leverage time and resources via delegation while remaining connected to management and staff, the disconnected CEO does just the opposite. They fail to seek clarification, validation, or proof supporting the information they have been fed.

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