Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. In an environment requiring companies to demonstrate ever-greater agility and to innovate incessantly to remain competitive, an organization full of employees well-conditioned to avoid failure can be a liability.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This year, I contributed a 23 page chapter in “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ” published by American Society for Training and Development. Develop a discipline to execute your art regularly.That is the only way I know to achieve excellence. October 2012: Agility in Process Improvement Initiatives. Stay Tuned!

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2015

What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). Weekly page views for the Deming Institute blog from December 2013 to December 2015. 2014 Deming Prize Awardees (2014).

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013). 94% Belongs to the System (2013). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). The Aim Should be the Best Life – Not Work v.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). We Need to Understand Variation to Manage Effectively (2013). What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). Inspection is too late. Create Constancy of Purpose (2015).

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1) and 2012 (1). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013). 94% Belongs to the System (2013). Deming and Software Development (2014). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. We also found seven other reasons Africa’s economy might leapfrog the economies of more developed nations. Emotional Agility.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2013

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). We’re not as agile at smoothing over awkward moments, repairing a rift in relationships, expressing genuine gratitude and acknowledging contribution. Alston, the UN Study).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

Thousands of books and articles have been written on the topic, and leadership-training courses continue to proliferate – which tells us that no one has a consistent, coherent means to develop leaders. And how do we develop their skills and careers? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. The data was gathered at the end of 2013 by a third-party research expert.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models. Innovation Strategy Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid : Leading Your Kids to Succeed in Life by Tim Elmore Tim Elmore understands the development of young people like few others do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. IT management ROA ROI'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Similarly, telling workers what to do at every turn won''t lead to the degree of agility that organizations now need. Keep your gaze on the customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Where was it?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Extend the insights beyond talent acquisition decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. General Stanley McChrystal and others noted to me that ideology might have prevented any leaders from putting in such a request even just a few years earlier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. These are the things that will create more value for the customer and enable the enterprise''s agility. Define Your Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. ” To illustrate the value of this flexibility, Deming developed a model. Machines aren’t quite this agile (yet), whereas people can be. jobs were “at risk” of being computerized over the next two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. Today’s leaders need a new approach to strategy development. Value flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For example, at Reputation.com, CEO Michael Fertik never tells new business development staff how to start the sales process or size deals. “In They’re cautious at first as they gather data and study a situation, but once they jump in, they move quickly, making them perfectly suited for lean and agile development projects.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

I had made the decision to refocus all of our product development, sales, and marketing efforts on the marketing director. By continuing to serve two masters, we watered down our marketing effort, and hampered our product development velocity. And in the spring of 2013, we opened our European headquarters in Dublin.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Jessica Sklar, then the band’s intern and now Machine Shop’s Chief Strategy Officer, evolved the online discussions into in-person meet-ups and events at concerts, developing what came to be known as the “Linkin Park Underground.” Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our development team went Agile. In each of the first seven months of 2013, PBS.org topped ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox as the most-visited network TV site, according to comScore. ” Crucially, we delivered business results.

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