You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon. This usually happened when times were good, when organizations felt a little more ebullient about their prospects and generous toward their employees. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Transformational Steps.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Especially in uncertain times, “companies must tilt more toward strategic leadership than toward operational excellence.” The more uncertain the environment becomes, the more a leader needs these six disciplines in combination because they possess self-reinforcing qualities when deployed as an interdependent leadership system.”

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. At whatever level one enters the ladder, he-she is trained, measured for performance and fits into the organization’s overall Big Picture. Operations are sound, professional and productive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

CoachQuest is designed to build and groom leadership in a team environment, providing team members the opportunity to learn, take action, and achieve results together, within the context of their organization. Become a better leader, better manager, better team player, and better person. Why have you chosen this approach?

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

So I reached out to a number of experts with these 3 questions: What is the number #1 leadership competency a person must possess or learn to succeed? What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

After all, it stands to reason that we do our best work when we are operating from our strengths. There are all kinds of teams… independent teams, interdependent teams, multi-disciplinary teams, sports teams, project teams, self-managed teams. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The traditional tools of management — strategy and planning — are no longer sufficient. Doctrine is the military's mechanism for managing the fog of war, pushing decision-making closer to the ground while providing the lines to guide decision-making and action. So Special Operations went with a third option.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. How can you break this cycle? They're just failing more.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid.

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