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Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System

Deming Institute

Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. We took the systems diagram, process flow diagrams, Failure-Mode-Effects-Analysis, control charts. Gordon: We don’t write job descriptions.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain.

Strategy Driven

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon Soup , an inspirational business fable, shares a recipe for success filled with the essential ingredients to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. The Out-of-Control Complain Train DON’T: Give in to the temptation to whine.

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In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs | You're Not the Boss.

You're Not the Boss of Me

Our brains are difference engines, trained to find and deal with patterns and their disruption. For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ). BJ Gallagher Hateley June 17, 2009 at 3:13 am Thanks for the great analysis of my book! Thank you!!

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Perfectionism Is Increasing, and That’s Not Good News

Harvard Business Review

This scale was developed by leading psychologists in the area of perfectionism, Paul Hewitt and Gordon Flett, and measures self-oriented perfectionism (excessively high personal expectations), socially prescribed perfectionism (excessively high social expectations), and other-oriented perfectionism (excessively high expectations of others).

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Case Study: The Gentleman's 3

Harvard Business Review

An analysis of those executives' HR files showed, amazingly, that they had received powderpuff performance reviews for years — as had the entire workforce, for that matter. You can correct this problem by holding training sessions, which should be easy to set up.". He would start organizing the training sessions immediately.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. “But more engineers is a good thing.