Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

This was certainly the case in my own example above. Working to discern the “right” things is the role of leadership and, as we have seen from Mark Lane’s example, there are effective methods that can be employed to unlock what is in the hearts of people who have a stake in a school, school district, or organization of any type.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

For example, I’ve worked with and studied leaders who are charismatic visionaries…but their ability to listen, stay focused and make consistent decisions are totally absent. Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? Liz Mellon ( Leadership Expert ) Curiousity. Stay human.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 12, 2012

If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The research used the Wardley mapping framework, developed by the LEF’s Simon Wardley, and applied it to the evolution of the IT organization. The Wardley mapping process enables organizations to better understand the competitive landscape they are operating in, and to see where to attack and where to defend.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. What’s an example of a company that really does do a good job of thinking about price at the R&D stage?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood. Consider the first of these dimensions: predictability.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. From my own experience with clients, there are three women I would like to highlight as examples of these trends – women succeeding despite moments of turmoil or tremendous changes. Learn more about the author at the end of this post.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2022

” This is a classic example of a bad boss pushing people. Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. This is treating low engagement as a problem to be solved rather than an indicator of much deeper issues.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The 2023 CMI President’s Dinner was a chance to reflect on these issues and, on a more positive note, to celebrate examples of truly inspirational leadership. Highly commended: Dr Godwin Simon CMgr FCMI, whose approach to healthcare is saving thousands of lives. Here are some highlights. Read more here.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Simone Golob/Getty Images. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Our Thermo King manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, for example, is one of our first zero waste to landfill facilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Here’s an example. In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Leaders Eat Last : Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don''t by Simon Sinek The title of the book— Leaders Eat Last —comes from a conversation with a Marine Corps general. Blog Post ). We need to be a perpetual rookie. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Encouraged by evangelists like Simon Sinek , myriad firms like Nike, Adidas, Pepsi, and Coca-Cola are devoting real time and attention to explaining why they do. An excellent example of this is Steve Jobs’s address to the Stanford graduating class in 2005. The idea of “purpose” has swept the corporate world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Leaders increasingly need to model traits that reflect the values and culture of the organization in which they operate. At Red Hat, for example, the senior team is held accountable for how associates (Red Hat’s way of referring to “employees”) answer the question: “I understand Red Hat’s strategy and what I can do to make it successful.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Norway’s $900 billion fund divested from coal last year, for example.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Would you share an example of a company or two leading the way? Although none are perfect, they operate in a way that generates engagement and fulfillment for their employees, delight and loyalty for their customers, positive contributions to their communities and to the environment, and excellent returns for their owners and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

As Professor Simon Baron-Cohen noted, they are quite similar to the stereotypical engineer or professor: disinterested in nonverbal communication, non-empathetic, and somewhat detached from interpersonal contact; happiest when on their own or interacting with their own thoughts rather than people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Operations in a Connected World. Simon Sinek has a great TED Talk about hiring people because they believe what you believe, not because they have the particular skill you think you need right now. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

To understand how the current political instability in Egypt will affect the NPV of a foreign subsidiary located there, we should first establish a no-instability benchmark, which assumes that the operation there will generate the same level of profitability (adjusted for inflation) for the rest of time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. And Facebook is by no means the only example. The economist Herbert Simon posited that in a society where many of our material needs have been satisfied, people’s attention becomes the limited resource.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But once you get beyond that stereotype, there are some really encouraging examples of senior people who have enjoyed long careers because they have cultivated a broader set of interests and passions. He operates in a world where craft and artistry are real positives. We spoke to the Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge about his brand.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

For example, when you say to Alexa “order more dog food,” a chain of activities is initiated that leads to the delivery of a fresh supply of Kibble 24 hours later, with little or no human intervention. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. For example, they concluded that a strike at factories in one of the existing locations had a 90% probability of lasting at least two days, a 50% probability of being resolved within two weeks, and less than a 10% chance of requiring more than four weeks for resolution. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? For example, I've proposed redesigning the economy around the idea of a national balance sheet, which redefines profit and wealth to matter in human terms. Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses. Next, firms would assess the likely impact of alternative scenarios on their operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?” The social media data was extracted from 10,000 tweets over a 2 week period.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Compelling examples of successful people will show you when and why growth is slow, how to keep going, what to do when growth and learning are almost too fast to keep up with, and how to leap from one growth journey to another. The growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and Mastery. Blog Post ).

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