N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Watch the full webinar here: Event: Managing in a Disruptive Environment On 18 August, CMI Malaysia hosted our Managing in a Disruptive Environment event. Kudos to all award recipients and shortlisted candidates.

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Processes (and improvement) are seen as costs. Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. They create focus groups on process improvements, document the lessons, relentlessly train teams and incorporate preventive measures in their processes.

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Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 160

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. Some of the greatest barriers to getting the results we want lie within us.

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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. There is more to learn than any human can effectively process.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. I must confess that not being particularly academic in my own learning process, I found The Fifth Discipline a little dry. How they manage conflict. The principles of Senge’s book were important when he first wrote them and are important now.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

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 begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. Hank has overseen 400 strategic plans and corporate visioning processes. He is a mentor to senior management. Edwards Deming. Presidents.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. When you can’t design that away having processes that provide notice when things are moving in the wrong direction so you can institute countermeasures to avoid the natural result of leaving the reinforcing loop to move against your desires.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. What Advice do You Have For Developing Servant-Leadership Skills?

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. But, you can’t get to that point I think realistically, without having invested some time in your own personal growth and development. What Advice do You Have For Developing Servant-Leadership Skills?

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. They permit us to collect, process, store, and transform the new precious raw material of our age: information.

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