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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

On the topic of the most important qualities in leaders, Eileen believes that leaders must be honest and have the abilities to deeply listen and clearly communicate, along with the willingness to admit error. Previous 2016 Featured Instigators: 11/2016: Ann Van Eron. 10/2016: Will Lukang. 8/2016: Susan Mazza.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Regardless of leadership style, many executives would agree that empathy is a basic and very important quality of a successful leader.

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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). He thinks these are the most important qualities in leaders: humility. 2/2016: Chris Edmonds. trustworthiness.

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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Engaging your Team: The Science of Inspiring Others to Give their All

Great Leadership By Dan

The project we undertook was successful in that we were able to take a deep, broad look at research to identify the qualities of a leader that engage, align, inspire, and move people to act. Gallup reports only 35% of managers are engaged in their jobs. The first thing we need to do is stop surveying and start supporting managers.

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CEO Tenure Affects The Likelihood Of Recalling Unsafe Products

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed data from 125 listed firms, whose 307 CEOs enacted 584 product recalls between 1992 and 2016. They propose a number of policy recommendations to help alleviate the problem, including the suggestion that the Consumer Product Safety Commission learns from the FDA in terms of how drug recalls are managed.

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Dr. Deming’s work lauded by world famous philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre

Deming Institute

Aristotle also held that a flourishing life desires some ‘good’ and seeks to achieve excellence: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and human pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that which things aim.” ( Nicomachean Ethics 1094a1-3).

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