Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Especially in uncertain times, “companies must tilt more toward strategic leadership than toward operational excellence.” They develop and maintain an external mindset. Once a company becomes the master of its own universe, seeing new developments in adjacent markets becomes harder. Chapter 1: Elon Musk). It sums it up well.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. Learning is impacted by our “reflexive ways of thinking, the rigidity of our mental models, and the strength of our ego defense systems.”

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 280

Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Some 83 percent of organizations worldwide claim AI is a top priority for their business. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations.

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Trends Retail Operations Brainstorming 337

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. This step must be passionately led by the top leader.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

So I reached out to a number of experts with these 3 questions: What is the number #1 leadership competency a person must possess or learn to succeed? What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Leaders are developed! ALL CLEAR! Keep your promises.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates. Deming is the core of our management.” .

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The CoachQuest team-based program develops leaders into great coaches to enable…. CoachQuest is designed to build and groom leadership in a team environment, providing team members the opportunity to learn, take action, and achieve results together, within the context of their organization. Improved decision making.

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Motivation Tactics Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me. Story by Jim Lavoie.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 10

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

It influences the way work is organized, executed and informs the ways in which quality measured. Empowerment – Employee empowerment occurs when management shares information and a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision-making, allowing employees to take initiative and make decisions to solve problems.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

After all, it stands to reason that we do our best work when we are operating from our strengths. There are all kinds of teams… independent teams, interdependent teams, multi-disciplinary teams, sports teams, project teams, self-managed teams. And, I expect we are that much happier about it too. Of course, nothing is simple.

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Team Blog Teamwork Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing. The development team was extremely cohesive.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations. In most organizations, there’s a standard set of tools we use to form, lead, and manage teams. When you want a status update, you go to the project manager.

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Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Doctrine is the military's mechanism for managing the fog of war, pushing decision-making closer to the ground while providing the lines to guide decision-making and action. So Special Operations went with a third option.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. That scares me.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid. Reflect for a moment on the development of constitutional democracy.

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