The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

QAspire

JULY 22, 2019

Organizations are in a state of constant flux with business models becoming obsolete, new models emerging and new technologies disrupting businesses/individuals. Thriving in such a world means actively managing your future, learning at the speed of change, making quick sense of big shifts and responding accordingly.

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Senge Self-aware Competitive Advantage Media 175

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Listen to their discussion here !

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Project Webinar Learning-by-Doing Blog 52

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom.

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Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Social tools were enabling everyday people to break through traditional barriers to connect, build their audiences and careers and get more creative than ever before. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge. In the early days of what was called Web 2.0, the excitement was palpable.

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Senge Airlines Efficiency Follow-up 8