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How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved

Harvard Business Review

We recently discussed some of these tensions with board members and executives at Prium, a New York-based forum for CEOs (in which McKinsey participates). Maggie Wilderotter, chairman and CEO of Frontier Communications (and a member of the boards of P&G and Xerox) stresses that “it’s not just about the meetings.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success. They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them).