Six Disciplines

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Change Is Inevitable - Failure Is Optional

Six Disciplines

Our choice is to manage this ongoing process and improve the things that can be improved, or ignore the process and decay. The challenge for us as individuals, and for organizations, is how to keep on the “upward vector” of growth, innovation, improvement and continual learning. Which Comes First: Process or Behavior?

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How to Connect Strategy and Execution

Six Disciplines

If there is one maxim which describes the frustration many C-suite executives and senior level managers feel when trying to trying to get a strategy executed, it is: “People know what they are supposed to do. They just don’t do it.”. An excellent example of a company that gets this phase right is Apple Inc.,