Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.”

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

corporate boardroom representation , despite solid evidence that greater women's representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved business performance. France plans to impose a 20 percent quota by 2012 and double it to 40 percent by 2016 for the country's 2,500 largest companies. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

In 2016, the U.S. It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. baranozdemir/Getty Images. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Now, barely three months on, the corporation is in turmoil, stymied by recent crises that have exposed its weak leadership and ineffective, bloated management. The BBC's leadership would do well to remember this. What is the BBC's leadership strategy and how will the corporation develop a new cadre of leaders?

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Crisis Crisis Management Reputation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Using BoardEx data provided by the Center for Corporate Performance, we examined a sample of 1,212 CEOs who led S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010. The restriction on graduation year and degree is to maximize the probability that the individuals met as a result of shared education.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. From 2010 to 2015, the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office tripled from 300,000 to over 900,000.

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. Jobs at universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government research facilities are exempted, as are workers from certain countries and any current H-1B holders applying for renewal. Who gets H-1Bs?

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 10