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. People are often the symptom carriers.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. Each of the logically ordered steps is clearly explained.” ” ~ D. Executive Behaviors & Motivators DISC® profile.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

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. Not Building Cause and Capacity for Continuous Change.

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Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

This blog outlines how that model developed and introduces a series of three more blogs summarizing each of The Three Rings. It starts with the belief that service/quality is not the absence of defects as defined by management, but the presence of value as defined by customers.

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Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Maxwell, and Warren Bennis books in abundance, do most people in leadership positions have no clue what to do?” Most managers (people in leadership positions) really don’t read books about leadership. I love this question!

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Management Six Sigma Leadership Short-term 298

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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Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. If you want to pair your managers with social entrepreneurs, here are a few things to consider: Prepare : Invest in preparing your participants in advance.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

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. This problem is not limited to top management, however.

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. 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. And it’s not just your company.

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