Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Align Systems ).

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Align Systems ).

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 4, 2023

During the financial crisis of 2008, it was widely cited that a greater presence of female managers in the financial industry would have resulted in more ethical behaviors.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“The average increase in 3G coverage between 2008 and 2018 was 36 percent across the 2,120 subnational regions we examined,” the researchers explain. These digital tools can also help people to overcome some of the systemic challenges they might ordinarily face.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

My wife has always told me that “you can’t go wrong by going right,” and as usual I find her advice to be spot on…Never compromise you value system, your character, or your integrity. Thanks for stopping by Steve… Rob Mike- Systems thinking can be of high value to leaders. I'll be sure and check it out.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

This is more than a semantical issue – it’s become a systemic problem with many individuals and organizations. The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Discipline requires a systemic approach. To make good decisions, we need to understand how the system works. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

As one significant example, in 2008, while personally leading substantial organizational change that ultimately resulted in 14 staff redundancies, my practice of Fullan’s approach enabled a breakthrough in service delivery configuration way different to any previous models.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Put rather simplistically, a business model is the system that defines what creates value, generates growth, and increases revenue and profit within your organization. The primary advantage that a business model has over any number of other strategic frameworks lies in the fluidity of its inherently dynamic nature.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 28, 2021

After researching data from around 800,000 English students starting university in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016, they found that cities appear to provide an “escalator effect” into these universities that don’t exist in rural areas.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

New research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis explores whether we might be able to accurately forecast pending recessions. The authors suggest that after the financial crisis of 2008, there was an 85% chance that the next recession would start before 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Regardless of whether your firm embraces a meritocracy, a tenure based system, a highly sophisticated compensatory system, or some form of a benevolent dictatorship, bonuses are always an issue.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is often misunderstood.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 1, 2020

Since the 2008 financial crisis created ructions in the labor market, there has been prolonged focus on the nature of work. Do do they seek to operate within such a system rather than actively oppose it? The 2008 crisis has left an indelible mark on a generations expectation of the labor market, and their place within it.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. You assume that the person asking the question is always right. But are they?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Some say hackers broke into to the Target organization through the system of one of their suppliers, a seemingly innocuous HVAC company. In 2008, thieves simultaneously hit more than 2,100 ATMs across the globe and within 12 hours stole more than $9 million in cash. Secret Service to investigate compromised credit card activity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

"False" beliefs, a lack of sincerity, or any belief system that is not genuine can be harmful. What I was able to take away from your comment was insightful if viewed with perspective.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Visit [link] to learn more about the leadership system. Leaders need to have a passion for what their company does or creates, not just a passion for the money it can make. Leaders need to have an profound appreciation for all the people working for them and the skills they bring to the table.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Operations Excellence Toyota’s operational excellence, particularly their Toyota Production System, exemplifies efficiency, quality, and continuous improvement. Operations are the foundation of every company.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2010

Government Accountability Office (GAO) developing a “key national indicators&# system that will be available online. In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Gertner writes about the U.S. Last year I spoke at the GAO’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2020

research system even as they underscore its indispensability in providing the fuel for American innovation and competitiveness as well as the know-how required to address the nation’s many societal challenges,” the authors explain. The report also urges greater public university funding so that a return to pre-2008 levels is seen.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. coercive utopian systems such as communism and fascism), fail because the values they promote work against human flourishing. why is everyone smiling?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2021

As governments attempted to grapple with the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, austerity politics was a common approach to try and balance the books after a prolonged period of extensive spending to prop up the financial system.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

Another study Dov has written about was conducted by the University of Michigan’s hospital system. The hospital system revised its medical malpractice policy from “denying and defending” most claims to sitting down with plaintiffs and their lawyers to discuss the claims prior to taking any formal legal action.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Steve holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Micro-Electronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University. citizen in 2008. He is the author of The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s , a how-to guide on innovation and digital transformation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Highlights an eye-opening study which finds that Talent Management systems are gender-biased and talk about what to do about it. Many managers don’t trust that their systems hire and keep people that will make good decisions. Jon Ingham presents Chasing Stars and Socialism at Social Advantage. posted at TalentedApps.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. Mississippi is throwing a lifeline to its K-12 education system. Jackson , MS If your specialty is education, head to Jackson, MS.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

As a result, Dominos stock has risen 5000 percent since 2008, outperforming all of the world’s largest tech companies. He says, “Culture is a corporate immune system that protects against variance, decline, or abandonment by identifying and combating threatening forces like toxic partners, disjointed processes, and bad decisions.”.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In 2008, I was granted a patent on it. It’s a design process that optimizes for human motivation in a system, as opposed to pure efficiency." I have a new favourite book - Actionable Gamification - Beyond Points, Badges, Leaderboards and Reviews by Yu-Kai Chou. I have been interested in gamification for a while. According to Chou.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This finding is important because it’s the opposite of what happened after the 2008 financial crisis, when it was generally higher-income countries that suffered bigger recessions. Research from York University highlights how the same was true for lower-to-middle-income countries as well. Social sentiment. They are also costly.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Additionally, interpersonal judgment and social evaluation tends to elicit strong stress reactions with cortisol levels in our system being elevated fifty percent longer when the stressor is interpersonal versus impersonal ((Dickerson, S. Williams, K., Fitness, J. & Newton, N. When hurt will not heal.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

But to enable them for better performance, to make them effective, a system needs to be created. A system comprising of interconnected processes that act as a tool people use to execute their work. In my view, when we create a system, it automatically addresses process, information flow and work flow.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Systematic and Open to Possibility: The complexity of our organizations requires that you support some systemization within them. Systems drive efficiency and results. Independence is often required to make final decisions. All Rights Reserved.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the 1940’s there was a beautiful actress, Hedy Lamarr (think Angelina Jolie ), who along with composer George Antheil received a patent for their invention of a classified communication system that was especially useful to submarines in World War II. Did you know that Catherine Litchfield Greene invented the cotton gin?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes. Influential leadership is about influencing people to follow.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? Spread awareness of your quality beliefs and systems by designing e-bulletins or newsletters. Set up a reward and recognition system to promote right behaviors with respect to quality of products/services delivered to customers.

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