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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Brown: Leaders in the outdoor leadership space are quite familiar with a wilderness ethic and organization called Leave No Trace. LNT is not a well-known philosophy beyond the outdoor industry. Muda is waste and Kaizen is the process of reducing that waste made most famous by Toyota’s Production System.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. But pursuing incremental improvements while rivals reinvent the industry is like fiddling while Rome burns.” The benefits were significant. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Carnival of Human Resources or Leadership Development Carnival ) in that it features a collection of blog posts from various authors that relate to given subject matter. Carnival of Human Resources or Leadership Development Carnival ) in that it features a collection of blog posts from various authors that relate to given subject matter.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. Edwards Deming. I think I was the only one to raise my hand after he asked who had heard of him.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

” Human capital champions in higher education and industry typically prize knowledge over skills. So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. That scares me.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". billion distributor of industrial supplies prepared a timeline that showed all the methods and approaches they'd taken to process management over the previous 16 years.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Top managers in disrupted industries increasingly find this question less rhetorical than newly fundamental. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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