Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2011

All enterprises face a unique set of risks that threatens long-term organizational success and viability. Mapping corporate risks to the line organization’s executable processes illuminates the risk related activities so they can be appropriately monitored and managed. Consider leaving a comment!

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), These structural changes won’t produce the desired outcomes if the flow (process) aspect is not addressed. Because, work flows horizontally.

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together. Edwards Deming discussed frequently and emphasized in his management system ).

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics Here is a simple idea: Whenever you have a new manager (project manager/departmental leader) joining in your organization, put him/her through a simple training program on how to manage people.

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Jason Womack

AUGUST 3, 2011

I'm humbled and excited that over 50 took advantage of this day-long opportunity to look at how you work, not only at what you do during a day. For most people, 15 minutes is about an "eternity" in terms of office-focus time. Really, how long CAN you work, before someone asks you for "just a minute." What is productivity?

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Main | What Leaders Can Learn About Speaking from Martin Luther King » January 17, 2011 Four Steps for Making Better Decisions A friend recently gave me a copy of a new book that’s out now, The Price of Everything by Eduardo Porter.    Or, what can you do to coach someone through a more robust decision making process? 

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

It may have lasted a long time, or perhaps it dropped off like a waterfall once you got to work. While this source is primarily attributable to the individual, it doesn’t mean the manager doesn’t have a role to play too. It’s important for managers to pay attention and help their employees to “get up to speed.”

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Deming Institute

MARCH 21, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Nicholas continued to discuss his journey to improving management practices. He discusses the influence of management thinkers on his journey. From Myron he gained insight into what measures could be useful to management.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

My mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive, long-term, measurable change in behavior. The following process is being used by coaches around the world for this same purpose. This process has been used with great success by both external coaches and internal coaches. Develop an ongoing follow-up process.

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Jason Womack

AUGUST 14, 2011

Here was (and is) my question back when someone asks me that: "When was the last time your manager and/or team gave you an ENTIRE day to go off to another room and think about how you work. I started off by sharing my perspective of the productive process, and what you can do to improve workplace performance habits and practices.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2014

Yes, change takes longer than we thought, and the process is harder. I had no idea that this process would take so long. We all confuse two terms that appear to be synonymous but are actually quite different: simple and easy. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 2, 2011

Living as long as I have, and having been poked, prodded, assessed and provided with feedback all of my life – this recently-revealed blind spot hit me like a ton of bricks. As an executive coach, I interpret 360′s and self-assessments for my clients as part of the coaching process. I just don’t see it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Financial management. Change management. Team leadership.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Hardwoods of Michigan is a forty year-old company that acquires virgin timber, processes the logs, and then cuts the lumber to meet specific customer requirements. housing starts, in 2008-09 Hardwoods of Michigan had been in survival mode, focusing more on day-to-day operations as opposed to long-term strategies.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior. In terms of liking the coach—I have never seen a study that showed that clients’ love of a coach was highly correlated with their change in behavior. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

Nevertheless, politicians, business leaders and informed citizens can hurry the process along and put America back at the top of its economic game by understanding the value of time & patience, deregulation and entrepreneurship. . Time and Patience. This means that eventually businesses will start growing and hiring again. . Deregulation.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 13, 2011

Recently I posted about the annual review process where our team evaluates me in my leadership of Grace Community Church. You can read more about that process in the initial post HERE.) Management. Long-term planning. Less managing responsibilites. Improving the management of the staff is a continual need.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

January 19th, 2011 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Today’s guest post is from Mike Figliuolo at The thoughtLEADERS Blog. Mike Figliuolo is the Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. Gina : January 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm I have always believed that the most important job a leader has is to train his/her replacement. Great post!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 22, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Saturday, January 22, 2011 Secrets of Business Success I am having a productive morning. I worked hard and long. My Time Management book even advocated that in the first 3 edition. 3 - Systems and process. 3 - Systems and process. This is the basis of time management.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. link] mikemyatt Well said Tanveer.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. mike Friday, 22nd.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Women on Business

JULY 5, 2011

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. marketing manager jobs in NYC). How are you managing/surviving your post layoff new normal?

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? long unnecessary meetings and deadlocked debates? poor communications and expectations management? ad-hoc-ism and lack of process orientation? taking “short-term” view of business? effective and right management can go a long way. Loved the theme!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? I really don’t have a problem with increasing efficiency so long as the tail doesn’t start wagging the dog. Are you efficient or effective, or do you know?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. Sidebar : This post was inspired by a conversation I had last month Mark Oakes ( @MarkOOakes ) about the historical origin of the term&# Plan B.&#

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 23, 2016

A Kata as different from a routine in that it contains a continuous self-renewal process. By taking care to evaluate what is working and what isn’t we create a process in which we don’t allow ad hoc and unsuccessful changes to demoralize everyone. Get this process down. Make it a habit.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Isn’t that closer to a failure rate, in the truest sense of the term?

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

Delivering great experiences through people, processes and leadership comes with a cost, but that cost is far less than the cost of losing a customer and then acquiring a new one all over again. A very easy example for understanding and implementing the “Quality&# term. It is a long-term differentiators&#.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Yes, a good product may encourage sporadic customers but a good relationship will establish long-term, loyal customers. Develop a planning process that consists of setting measurable objectives. If you do not love it then do not sell it! Sell relationships not just a service or product.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I have now been detoxed and am on the road to long-term healing, so I would like to share some tips with you about this highly popular disorder. Yet so often when we just hit the tree tops we are disappointed, rather than seeing this as a learning opportunity or a process to grow. Thanks for the great blog!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 7, 2011

At least three things: You can’t “get&# or “make&# people do anything (at least not for very long or without unintended consequences). “Lazy&# is a relative term – one person’s lazy might be another person’s normal (or even motivated). What is wrong with the question you ask?

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