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Deming Podcast with Gordon McGilton

Deming Institute

Gordon McGilton, director of a private equity fund with investment in multiple industries, discusses applying Deming’s management ideas at the companies they invest in. Gordon will be presenting the 4 Day Deming seminar with Heero Hacquebord 27 to 30 April in Columbus, Ohio. download the podcast ). So they sent him back again.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

No, those fresh, once-in-a-lifetime ideas are examples of pure and raw creativity. Anyone with experience with the unforgiving discipline of new product development can testify how exceedingly rare it is for even the best of ideas to emerge from that process unscathed. It’s about delivering what customers will buy or use.

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3 Ways to Be a Positive Leader

Leading Blog

This is a guest post by best-selling author and speaker, Jon Gordon about the value of developing positive relationships with the people you lead. For example, Doug Conant, the CEO of Campbell Soup, has written more than 16,000 thank-you notes to employees in the past seven years and created a very positive business in the process.

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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron. Now, it’s important here in this process to include your team. The first process is to identify the problem or the challenge. How does it change the process? Try the Dimension Time Cost Operator challenge again in the feedback process.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. Lead the larger story. * * *.

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Preventing the Downstream Effects

Next Level Blog

In this episode, she was moderating a panel discussion on The Evolution of Medicine with Mark Hyman , James Gordon and Penny George. A few weeks ago, I wrote here about trying to sort through the thought process that led to the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris. It requires addressing cause at least as much as downstream effect.

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Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System

Deming Institute

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. Gordon: We don’t write job descriptions.

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