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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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Agility: 8 Pillars For Building Self Organizing Teams

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Which also means, if your organization wants to be agile (and strategically nimble footed), you have to invest in building a culture of agility. You need to build a system of management methods, rituals, processes, tools and motivation where people are more likely to exercise their choice of doing a good job versus doing a great job.

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How to be an Essentialist?

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Disruptions, hyper-competitive landscape and the need to stay on top of the curve is pushing many organizations into a situation where overwhelming priorities lead to burn outs in the team. It is then about finding ways, building systems and having tools that help you execute on it effortlessly. This is true for individuals as well.

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Optimize the Whole

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But when you look at the whole system, you might figure out that the real root cause is in something which is immeasurable yet important – may be, collaboration with other teams or how you sell. If your metrics are narrow, you will never be able to focus on systemic metrics that may really help your business and the customer.

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Social Mindset: A Key to Engaging Talent

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Newer generations at workplace demand different experiences and therefore, organizations are challenged constantly to move beyond traditional engagement programs and think of engagement more holistically. The design of organization and work should enable and encourage people to pursue non-linear career paths.

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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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Cohesive Leadership Team: Whole Before the Part

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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. Tough and tricky decisions have to be made keeping this goal in perspective. In a system, parts represent the whole.

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