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Leading For A Better Tomorrow

Tanveer Naseer

That’s why I believe that it is important to tap into some of his most pointed and provocative advice for creating the best possible futures for our organizations. In regards to the future, Drucker advocated using this with kaizen, or continuous, ongoing improvement. This could lead, he believed, to genuine innovation.

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Feedback Without Measurement Won’t Do Any Good

Harvard Business Review

Feedback that comes without ways to monitor measurable change is less meaningful feedback than it is well-intentioned advice. Feedback must be explicitly linked to metrics, measures, and mechanisms that track the desired — and desirable — change. In other words, effective feedback requires effective feedback. You and Your Team.

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Delivering Your Innovative Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Communicating advice is one thing, getting to see how that advice is actually interpreted and communicated is another. While P&G-ese was recognizably a dialect of English, reading this translation was a bracing experience. Ah, so that's how they see it. Is the translation a conceptual/technical straitjacket?

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. The manufacturer has since introduced quality techniques (" kaizen " events), as well as Lean strategy deployment methods and tools.