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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

Engaging Leader

A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries. Video: How to Use a Stakeholder Analysis to Identify Audience Members. A certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Megan has worked with companies throughout North America and in 14 different countries.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. I was about to teach the customer segment of a Six Sigma class near Palmdale, CA, for Lockheed Martin. The benefits were significant. Fun Leaders Are Light. Fun leaders are about light.

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How to Discover Your What

Leading Blog

Olsher has developed a three-step process to help you uncover and reconnect with your natural strengths, identify the vehicle you’ll leverage to share your gifts with the world and the specific audiences who’ll benefit most from your gifts. “As As we endure life’s hardships, we tend to lose touch with our inner greatness.

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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. In that type of culture, continuous improvement is just that – continuous.

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Three Examples of New Process Strategy

Harvard Business Review

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. I'm collectively referring to these process improvement approaches as "Process Strategy 2.0". Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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How to Build Confidence

Harvard Business Review

Gruenfeld, the Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Co-Director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Worry about what others think — focus on yourself, not a theoretical and judgmental audience.

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Please, Can We All Just Stop "Innovating"?

Harvard Business Review

I fear that very dynamic is unfolding today with respect to a piece of language and a leadership aspiration that has become the Holy Grail for business thinkers like me. Its leadership said, "We want to 'democratize the skies' and give rank-and-file Americans the freedom to fly." That piece of language, that aspiration, is innovation.