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

Deming Institute

One of my colleagues gave me a copy of a “Livonia Philosophy” handbook that was gathering dust, and I’ve kept to this day. Toyota sometimes talks about the primary goal of improvement efforts to be learning and the development of people, with improved metrics being a secondary goal. What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Baldoni also provides an appendix that works as a handbook to guide you in this. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ).

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Decision making Operations'