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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

He authored 57 books, including a book on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. One key indicator of leadership’s failure to impassion people and foster their commitment is absenteeism. When I was a kid, I didn’t enjoy school. So, I was sick a lot and stayed home.

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

Deming Institute

I first read the book during a break between quarters during my junior year in college. Occasionally, a brother would get voted out of the chapter after a period of excessive absenteeism. 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.

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