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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? It’s business as usual. Business moves along.

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Favorites of 2011: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

Processing the Experience Using Mouse Traps. Here is an opening activity that I use in DiSC Workshops. DTC Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – is a tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size and cost. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia.

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Ensure Smooth Transitions for Successful Change

Change Starts Here

For more than 100 years, United Illuminating provided electricity to its customers in Connecticut through distributed operations. Within the facility, department adjacencies and physical layouts would change, requiring people to modify their work processes and relationships. The United Illuminating Story.

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A Way to Implement Change That Really Works

Change Starts Here

The recurring theme in our coaching sessions and workshops is how organizations, initiatives and change agents get and stay unstuck. As a special bonus, when you order by May 14, 2012 you will also reserve your spot in the exclusive “Design & Influence Irresistible Change” webinar on May 15. What is included? How much is it?

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

To my surprise, during the interviewing process, GM promised me a different type of workplace (one that existed, at least, at this plant), one based on the Deming philosophy. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Long timelines mean greater vulnerability to emerging risks—that is, dangers with a large potential impact that are not well understood or easily quantified, or which emerge as the unanticipated result of disparate causal processes interacting.

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The Benefits of Giving Away What Your Company Knows

Harvard Business Review

One of Buffer’s practices is to default to transparency — it is relentlessly forthcoming about its operations, its learning, and its performance. Generative businesses deliberately design their work processes to create opportunities for others while they grow their own business. Let’s look at each of these in a bit more depth in turn.