Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. There are lots of systems and processes in organizations (e.g., You couldn’t have two or three, you had to pick one.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” There is more to learn than any human can effectively process.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. ’ Fourth, a rigorous debriefing process seeks root causes.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. Reasons range from data creators not understanding what is expected, to poorly calibrated measurement gear, to overly complex processes, to human error. The risk is that a minor error at one step will cascade, causing more errors and growing ever larger across an entire process.

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Tools Schein Objective Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity. You can process it all later and decide what you want to act on, but in the moment just take it all in.

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