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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Are people “headcount” to be managed as assets wrapped in skin?

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System. What would happen?

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). The book is filled with concrete examples, processes and checklists that will help a business owner in creating a successful business.” Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “But the book doesn't stop there!

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Hank Moore | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. Hank has overseen 400 strategic plans and corporate visioning processes. He is a mentor to senior management. Edwards Deming. Presidents.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. ” In the field of marketing, our thinking is permeated by the mental model of mass communication. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

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Are You Building Facebook's Empire, Or Your Own?

Harvard Business Review

However, instead of business adopting groundswell thinking, most businesses sought out the tools without the new attitude, seeing them more as a new, cheaper way to get to market rather than a better way to do business altogether. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge.

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