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

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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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Never stop paying dues… and see this continuum as “continuous quality improvement.” Never stop learning, growing and doing. Learning Organizations Are More Successful.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

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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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

What are you doing to ensure quality completion? When can we get together to discuss your progress? What can we do to make this project run more smoothly? What additional information can I provide? Why have you chosen this approach? How well is your team supporting you? When do you think you can deliver? Are your asking or telling?

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Motivation Tactics Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 62

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

It influences the way work is organized, executed and informs the ways in which quality measured. Learning Organization – A learning organization is one that acquires knowledge and facilitates the learning of its team members, in order to continuously improve, innovate, and transform.

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Strategic Planning Network Organization Project Reference 231

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. Share this: 4 Comments Filed under Leading Teams , Uncategorized Tagged as communication , Leadership , Team Learning , Teambuilding ← Leaders and the Learning Organization Taming the Inner Mule → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Team Blog Teamwork Learning-by-Doing 50

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Tim Magwood ( Leadership Coach & Musician ) I would say being an “agile learner” Things are moving fast in our VUCA world and we need more leaders who are learning WITH their people and helping to create deliberate learning organizations. I just read Multipliers this morning. I am sure you know this book.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Special Operations teams trying to get the most use out of their helicopters, assets with high demand and limited supply. So Special Operations went with a third option. One of the most powerful qualities of doctrine is its scalability. It is authoritative but requires judgment in application." Consider one example from U.S.

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Self-aware Guidelines Objective Operations 8

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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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

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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Company COO CFO Insurance 8

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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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

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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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8