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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! License.

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What Makes a Great Teacher? Leadership

Tony Mayo

Leadership May 7th, 2010 — tonymayo Email This Article I noticed something interesting about executive effectiveness while reading an article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, What Makes a Great Teacher? The Atlantic Amanda Ripley Aren’t these familiar leadership qualities? – What Makes a Great Teacher?

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

However, all kidding aside, there was a powerful lesson here to be learned; one that may have transformed me as a teacher… and I missed it. However, while it may be a fairly straight-forward task to teach a management or improvement process to someone, the real challenge may lie in first determining what is “right” to do in any given context.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). To show how different it is, we have special words to describe them such as " Master Black Belt ," " DMAIC ," " Kaizen ," " A3 ," and " SIPOC.". For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen."

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill.

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Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization

Harvard Business Review

The challenge is that, at both a philosophical and a practical level, the Hierarchy (with its management processes) opposes change. In a sense, the crowning accomplishment of the Hierarchy and its management processes is the enterprise on autopilot, everyone ideally situated as a cog whirring on a steady, unthinking and predictable machine.