The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality.

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

.” Inclusive Innovation Dramatically Boosts Agility “Innovation by All (IA) maximizes a company’s human potential by tapping into the intelligence, skills, and passion of everyone in the organization. Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets.

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IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? Keep reading the leadership books if you must, but branch out a bit.

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. Never stop learning, growing and doing.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This webcast shows Louie Paynter’s presentation, Hallmark Building Supplies ’ Approach to Applying Quality as a Business Strategy, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. They attempt to let the market dictate pay and take pay out of the performance discussions. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Quality Deming Strategy System 28

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality by Margaret Wheatley and Peter Senge. Applying Quality as a Business Strategy at Hallmark Building Supplies. The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing. Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System. Ackoff and Kellie Wardman.

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Deming System Senge Management 88

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

In Winning the Long Game they write that “In times of crisis and change, when people are confused about what to do, ordinary leadership must rise to the level of strategic leadership.” Especially in uncertain times, “companies must tilt more toward strategic leadership than toward operational excellence.” Chapter 1: Elon Musk).

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Skills Long-term Short-term Learning-by-Doing 150