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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. Roger and Persia Neidermeyer wrote a book on the effort – Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

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The Three Keys to Employee and Company Fulfillment

Strategy Driven

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

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When a Leader Aims to Please

Harvard Business Review

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Before You Take a Risk, Lay Out the Logic

Harvard Business Review

There is little I see about the practice of risk management today that is particularly helpful. In many companies, the approach seems to be a combination of formalized risk tracking and cultural engineering. In my experience, neither contributes positively to managing risk. Roger Martin's forthcoming book with A.G.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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How Our Company Learned to Make Better Predictions About Everything

Harvard Business Review

Multiple predictions for the same event can be aggregated and averaged, and therefore help managers understand what entire teams or divisions are thinking. I wanted us to improve host mode, by making it easy for streamers to build and manage a list of channels to automatically host whenever you’re offline.