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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

by Will Rogers, or somebody else. The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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How to Give Your Team Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Your job as manager is to ensure that team members are “providing regular constructive feedback,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. Work your way up to structured reviews. Ask each person to prepare specific reviews of colleagues to be read aloud at the next meeting.

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We Should Want Robots to Take Some Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Philosophers such as Sanders Pierce and design thinkers such as Roger Martin have long proposed the ability of human minds to perform leaps of logic to get to creative solutions. Technological change is causally connected to the stagnation of median income and the growth of inequality in the United States.

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What to Do When a Coworker Goes Over Your Head

Harvard Business Review

You might say something like: “I heard you talked to Roger about your initiative after we discussed it and that made me feel a bit concerned that we’re not communicating well.” Case Study #1: Don’t make snap judgments. ” She asked Donna to sit down with her to review the account once more.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Roger Adams, CMO says: “As USAA developed into a data-driven organization, we were able to accurately predict the impact of different marketing investment decisions. Forrester Research recently published a case study describing how USAA’s new partnership between marketing, finance and analytics has helped deliver better business insights.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. While the details of the project they studied have been changed in this story, the essential findings of their research remain. What went wrong?

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The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are moving faster and faster these days and few managers have time to think through their meetings in advance,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. Case study #1: Let everyone be heard. Case study #2: Actively manage disrupters.