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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

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These exert pressure up and down the system to make the numbers look good, instead of continuously improving the work processes and systems to achieve true quality. Give your higher functioning mental processes a chance to recover from the shock of the inappropriate order. Slow down the action.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

Strategy Driven

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 7 of 7

Strategy Driven

They are the ones who design or tolerate the practices, processes, structures, moods, and measures that create it. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. The executive floors are largely immune from this and, at the same time, unconsciously responsible for it.

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Post words. Achieve big. Build success. Day-by-Day.

Strategy Driven

Oh, and the process works! On the achievement side of life, my four words are: ADVISOR – DIGITAL – POWER – TIME. In 2014 I will intensify the program and the process until there are 500 certified advisors globally. LESSON: Once you have a successful idea, program, game plan, or process – strengthen it. Achieve big.