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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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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

Leading Blog

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. Some of the greatest barriers to getting the results we want lie within us.

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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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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Listen to their discussion here !

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

Six Disciplines

The book is filled with concrete examples, processes and checklists that will help a business owner in creating a successful business.” ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy.

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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. DMS : Trust and vulnerability are keys to “Energy Management” Not to sound too 19th or 20th Century, but trusting is efficient… and effective. Energy Management raises the issue of perfection.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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