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Mindful Leadership: Productivity and Presence

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It derails our leadership, intent and outcomes. Leadership presence’ is often correlated with personality and charisma of a leader. But I think that leadership presence is way more than physical appearance. Being able to effectively choose the response to the triggers in a way that brings you closer to your intent and goals.

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Quality: Setting Right Goals

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Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals.

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Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law

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Narrowly defined targets can become proxy of the goal while ignoring several other factors that contribute to accomplishing the real and meaningful outcome. In an organizational context, how do we manage this? Buy Now!

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A Worthy Goal for 2011 and Beyond

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Worthy Goal for 2011 and Beyond New year brings with it new predictions, agendas, resolutions and trends. From Seth Godin’s post “ What is Excellence ” at Tom Peters website So, seeking/delivering excellence in everything you do is a goal worth chasing in 2011 (and beyond). Don’t Kill It!

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What Makes a Failure Intelligent

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Meaningful Opportunity “An intelligent failure occurs as a part of what you believe is a meaningful opportunity toward a valued goal. Do Your Homework “Intelligent failures begin with preparation. The classic intelligent failure is hypothesis driven.” The post What Makes a Failure Intelligent first appeared on QAspire Consulting.

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Cohesive Leadership Team: Whole Before the Part

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After reading my last post about cohesive leadership team , some one asked me, “What exactly is cohesion?” In a cohesive team, the end goal or outcome assumes higher importance than an individual. In an organizational setting, senior leaders have a common and over-arching goal. I went on to share the following example.

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Cohesive Leadership Team: A Few Questions

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Drawing the same analogy for an organization’s leadership, cohesion is the degree to which senior leaders belong to each other and to the collective goal as a team. If senior leadership team is not cohesive, organization runs in different directions and becomes difficult to just sustain, forget about growing further.

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