Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Jobs that focus on process improvement, such as industrial engineers, Six Sigma Black Belts, and operations managers, are usually redesigning people’s jobs. To have any affect on results, the strategy must be executed. Though many try, the leadership team alone cannot implement a strategy. Process Improvement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. Leadership Lip Service: Behaviors Undefined and Underdeveloped. This is very consistent with most of our recent Client work. Poor Assessment of Systems/Processes and Perceptions/Attitudes.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last week’s follow up leadership and culture development webinar is now available for you to review. The session outlined our implementation steps, approaches, and Client examples for leadership, organization, and culture development. Click here to view the Practical Leadership and Culture Development Services webinar.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Management & Leadership Tactical Execution business management Chris Majer employee engagement employee productivity lean six sigma strategydriven'

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 31, 2011

Organizational culture development is a complex topic with many intertwined leadership components. It will cover: How “Soft&# Leadership and Culture Produce Hard Results. Leadership is an Action, Not a Position. You can get more information and register yourself and your management team for the webcast here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. Here are some of GE’s principles for achieving those essential aims: A leadership institute should reflect the company’s leadership ideals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Many executives have never recognized this pattern of serial adoption of different approaches to what is essentially the same topic. Here's this new approach.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. About the Authors James D.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. The retiring leader advocated strongly for an executive he had groomed for the job, in his own image.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

At frog, we hear the same things from executives in financial services, healthcare, and infrastructure. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So, if you are an enlightened executive in the post-Steve Jobs era, how do you grow and manage this emerging corporate asset?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

But they do have, say, strong leadership skills or a different set of experiences that may be useful in a wider context. Placed in leadership positions, such candidates can redefine outcomes for the better. Human resources Leadership Leadership development'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

For most of the last three decades, senior executives have been encouraged to take an efficiency mindset to their business. In the 1990s and 2000s, leadership’s focus on efficiency produced solid results. We collaborated with the Economist Intelligence Unit to survey more than 300 senior executives from large companies worldwide.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. 10 Team Dynamics That All Great Teams Share.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In this case the leadership team decided to focus on creating long-term value, not quarter-by-quarter improvement, through a values-based culture with empowered employees. Through leadership development programs, Six Sigma, and constant communication we made long-term investments in our people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results. However, two years without any tangible results will strain any executive team's patience. The maximum time to results should be three to six months.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. The retiring leader advocated strongly for an executive he had groomed for the job, in his own image.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This sense of being pushed and pulled every which way – without having any broader context or a sense that you’re getting somewhere – is something I see all too often in organizations, as executives try to keep up with new competitors or business trends. What are the lessons learned that you can apply to the next project?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. Over the years, we’ve shifted from thinking of the leader as hero, to thinking of the leader as visionary, strategist, creator of culture, and team builder.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care. Walk the talk.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. The list goes on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model. This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. Incremental Improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Once they find it, they work on finding radical ideas and developing business proposals for top executives to review.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Corporate executives often don’t understand that there are different kinds of design: There is brand design. The new design function and the new culture need to be protected by the CEO or by somebody at the executive level. What does a design team look like at PepsiCo? That’s where many organizations make mistakes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I recently took another look at my 553 hours of interviews with 380 executives, managers and contributors to see why some managers emerge as change leaders. Planning how to accomplish the change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Now, on the other side of my stint as a CEO, what advice would I offer hard-driving executives about coping with those conflicts? At Quest Diagnostics, we turned things around, in part, by adopting Six Sigma, which aims at a standard of perfection. Why One Executive Quit Business Travel Cold Turkey. Then try to do better.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. This and posts to follow will explore each of these disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

But in most cases, it’s still falling well short of its full potential because it either lacks or fails to tightly integrate with the mechanisms needed to systematically capture lessons learned and share them outside the team. And that’s where the money is in innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Every day, senior executives get bombarded with ideas—and most of them are either woefully underdeveloped or downright batty. What’s the problem?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

I fear that very dynamic is unfolding today with respect to a piece of language and a leadership aspiration that has become the Holy Grail for business thinkers like me. Companies are touting chief innovation officers, innovation teams, innovations strategies, and even innovation days," the hard-hitting piece noted.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Gruenfeld, the Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He knew that his apprehension was in part due to his lack of knowledge of Six Sigma. I knew I couldn't do it on my own.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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