Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 26, 2016

But mention “culture change” and people immediately think it will take forever to see a tangible difference. Attitudes are feelings or ways of thinking that affect behavior, language is the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other and behavior is the way people act.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

“We can design—and redesign—organizations, institutions, and systems to better absorb disruption, operate under a wider variety of conditions, and shift more fluidly from one circumstance to the next.” Resilience-thinking is not the same thing as being in a defensive mode. It’s engaging the world in a different way.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Appreciation for a system is one of the four aspects of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK). In an earlier short post on this blog, I provided a short introduction to appreciation for a system within the Deming context. The view of an organization as a system by W. Are you a systems thinker?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Learning is impacted by our “reflexive ways of thinking, the rigidity of our mental models, and the strength of our ego defense systems.” Negative thinking is toxic to learning. “In It’s part of their company-wide feedback loop. With the Dot Collector allows anyone to give any other employee performance feedback.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Becoming the favorite employee at work requires some political maneuvering—think of it as strategic relationship building. The favorites know how to work the system in their favor, which ultimately means building a strong support base throughout all corners of the organization. Here are some tips for doing just that.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. Rapid and transparent feedback loops and shifting from commanding to coaching are critical. Realign/integrate/prune current projects, processes, systems, and development initiatives. Talking isn’t doing.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And making powerful decisions helps overcome fears, setting up a positive feedback loop. One of the best ways to become more decisive is to develop a system of thinking through things. Indecision itself is the root of much fear, stress and worry. By being less fearful we are more likely to take calculated risks.

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Leading Blog

MAY 29, 2019

This framework (DPF) takes the basic concepts of vision, plan, execution, and feedback to a new level. And together with the de brief it provides a feedback loop that takes everything you’ve learned and apply it to upcoming actions. Feedback is key. Now on to the process. The Diamond Performance Framework.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

A crisis of this dimension would not have been possible without a very efficient, fast, cheap, and reliable information transportation system. When a system cannot adjust to a certain threshold of connectivity, it becomes overconnected and unstable. Davidow explains the key part of the overconnectivity issue: positive feedback.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But it’s much, much harder for competitors to duplicate a leadership culture and management system producing a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations, and extensions. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

To begin, to improve leadership effectiveness in an organization as a whole, it is imperative that leaders “think at an organizational, system-wide level, and the approach one takes to do this differs markedly from that of increasing the effectiveness of individual leaders.”. Using reflection and coaching to ensure feedback loops.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 23, 2018

Criticism is rarely easy for anyone to hear, but the manner in which it’s provided can make a huge difference in how feedback is received and how useful it can be in helping the recipient grow. The way most organizations handle feedback is terrible. For feedback to be effective, it must have a purpose. Make it interactive.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In order to develop a culture of continuous improvement there are two primary areas of focus: behavioral changes and a clear system to enable ideas for change. Cultural change is difficult as it forces established habits, hierarchies, processes and people to think and behave in unfamiliar ways. For one, behaviors change.

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RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You would think that the more people on a project, the greater the output. Those who believe the group’s goal is impossible to achieve are more likely to slack off; they think effort is futile. They think that they don’t have the ability to contribute meaningfully. Build in a feedback loop. Goal Value.

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CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

“We all need people who will give us feedback. Secret Formula to Receiving Feedback. It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. Think about it. The same thing goes with feedback. By: Gary Cohen.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Appreciation for a System (2012). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). Psychology – Managing Human Systems (2012). Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (2012). Systems Thinking: Feedback Loops (2016). ** This posts is the only popular posts that wasn’t in the top 20 in 2018.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

To give this collective shift more context, AI has moved from replacing jobs associated with inspecting equipment, manufacturing goods, repairing things to replacing humans in thinking tasks–the likes of data dives and calculations. The shift originated in the Industrial Revolution and gave rise to the current “Thinking Economy.”

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CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” – Bill Gates By: Gary Cohen Secret Formula to Receiving Feedback It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. Think about it.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 14, 2019

The application, known as MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that aims to tailor the length of sessions according to the abilities of each user. ” At the end of each of the meditation segments, each volunteer was asked to reveal how well they thought they had done during the exercise via a feedback app within the tool.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 7, 2019

Appreciation for a System (2012). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (2012). Psychology – Managing Human Systems (2012)*. Systems Thinking: Feedback Loops (2016)*. Create Constancy of Purpose (2015). Knowledge of Variation (2012).

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 4, 2023

To avoid this from happening again, I am trying out a new automated mailer system to keep you informed when I am away and when you can expect a response.” “I’m I appreciate your effort to keep me in the loop and for being so understanding during a particularly busy period. Thank you for understanding.” “I

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 18, 2016

Cornell Policy Review published a special issue exploring the application of systems thinking to public policy problems. Graduate students were given an introduction to systems thinking and then applied the concepts to address issues their field.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Feedback, at its core, is simply information about the results of past action that can improve the results of future actions. An airplane’s navigation system, the thermostat in your home’s heating unit, and a flashing electronic sign that displays your car’s speed are all examples of feedback that drives improvement.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Think of culture playing the role of greasing the skids making alignment to market conditions faster and smoother. Next, train people in the new behaviours, have management model them, and provide feedback loops so that people can see how their behaviours get results. Make outcomes observable and measurable.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

I always get asked what I think, never told. Getting multiple partners to support each other to the hilt within a healthcare system may feel obvious, but nationally it's far from a given. Now the feedback is great. I do think I reflect a lot more and think about how I should approach things before I proceed," she says.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 27, 2020

When you think about what life must’ve been like in 1918 during the Spanish flu, they couldn’t connect without jeopardizing their health and safety. A lot of that has to do with the support system they have in place—their connection to their parents, significant other, or children. How do we maintain it in a pandemic?

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

After hearing it I started to break it down to see if I could come up with a new statement for Lead on Purpose readers: Feedback: The word feedback is a technical term meaning “a mechanism, process or signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.&# The key to benefitting from feedback is listening.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

I don’t want to tell you the things that you already know, but make you think about the things you don’t. One of my passions for years now has been the practice and teachings of this thinking. If we all constantly collaborated, we would create endless feedback loops that startles growth and lead us down rabbit holes.

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LDRLB

APRIL 25, 2010

He was also a leading authority on systems thinking. Ackoff died in October 2009, but this new book “ Systems Thinking For Curious Managers ,” is an excellent contribution to systems thinking and serves as a fitting tribute to his legacy. This book is a short and very accessible read.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley does a good job of exploring how to view organizations as a system. That was something that made a lot of sense to how we were starting to think about organizations — as webs of relationships. instead results emerge from a system.

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CO2

JANUARY 3, 2011

You may think of this as shaping a mental model and then continual deconstructing and reconstructing this information based upon all new observations and the orientation that is created. The idea is that this is not a static model and rather than simply a linear formula you should be thinking of it as many ongoing loops.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It was a long and complex maze with many dead-ends and circular loops. Feedback is essential to leadership development. What do they think is working and what’s not so effective? We shut off our GPS units and head into dead-ends and circling career loops. The corn was 7 – 8 feet high.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. He is a proponent of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge and especially of a whole-system ecological view of enterprise. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. In that book and other articles (e.g.,

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. I think President Reagan said it best: “trust but verify.&# I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

While you might think that the tool you’re using is state of the art, it might be seen as completely outdated by your younger or more tech-savvy workforce, which could cause frustration among them. And don’t forget to always keep your employees in the loop as well. Listen to your Staff. They won’t. Don’t be Afraid to Ask for Help.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

The results are in: what does the CMI community think? We will of course continue to provide in-depth analysis of the latest changes and developments in management thinking. We hope you’ll enjoy the new approach – we’d love your feedback! What do you think? Many people are very sensitive, so this needs careful handling.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Your customers are the people who will come up with the most relevant ideas, the most immediate feedback, and in today’s social media-oriented world, they’re increasingly happy to help. Think About Finances. A lot of business owners think that once their company grows enough, they’ll have a lot more freedom and flexibility.

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