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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

Operational Excellence is a systematic approach to improving business processes and performance. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% Employee Empowerment: A core aspect of operational excellence is empowering employees to contribute to continuous improvement.

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What Makes a Failure Intelligent

QAspire

Read my 2015 post on this here. Amy says that if you are not regularly failing intelligently, you may not be operating at your full potential. Celebrating failures without a nuanced understanding can make us complacent and careless. where there are no readymade answers. What Makes a Failure Intelligent?

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Getting There Early

Let's Grow Leaders

The big operations review was scheduled for 8am in our headquarters building across the street. Paying attention to the conversation at the idea stage of a new project or idea can position you well for deeper involvement. Contact me for a free consultation of ways I can help you and your organization get a jump start on 2015.

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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Such calls for more financial support for startups are not new, with former EU research commission Carlos Moedas arguing for an EU-run venture fund back in 2015, which eventually became the European Innovation Council (EIC) this year. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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3 dysfunctional behaviors leaders use to avoid discomfort

Skip Prichard

Most of us use appeasing at least some of the time—for example, when you don’t want to let someone down when they ask you to work on a project, be on a board, volunteer for a committee, or do whatever with them. Your car is in the shop, and you don’t want to hold up the project. You feel honored, but your insides are screaming “NOOOOO!”

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

By implementing small, cost-effective pilot projects that demonstrate the potential of new ideas, organizations can counteract these clichés with tangible results (Brown, 2018). Quick, Impactful Actions against Stagnation In environments resistant to change, swift, targeted actions can create ripples that lead to significant transformation.