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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

First in December 2016 in Phoenix where they learned from Alan Mulally as well as me. Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career. More about that in a later post in this series.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

Mark Graban is author of the book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement (Productivity Press), which was selected for a 2009 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award (3rd Edition, 2016). I’ve blogged about some of the problems and chaos on my blog before.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. And at Björn Borg, their key performance indicators have improved after Bunge was brought in as CEO : net sales increased by 27% between 2013 and 2016, and operating profits tripled.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. Consider Jody Greenstone Miller who has had a stunning career from the White House to the Walt Disney Company.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Equally adept at managing people and operations. Expand from U.S.

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Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work

Harvard Business Review

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. And many Fortune 500 companies will just go away.