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Why You Should Automate Parts of Your Job to Save It

Harvard Business Review

Though charmingly valuable, Kaizen and suggestion boxes are 20th-century productivity anachronisms. An earlier post suggested that new technologies were fabulous media for augmenting and enhancing individual job performance. Technology was as much an enforcement tool as a process platform. Still true.

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Feedback Without Measurement Won’t Do Any Good

Harvard Business Review

In other words, feedback compliance — or assurance — becomes integrated into the networked fabric of day-to-day performance and processes. These technologies and innovations make creating cultures of accountability more practical and transparent.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. ” In other words, training divorced from excellence is mere compliance. A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing.