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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Avoiding top-heavy executive ranks and organizational bureaucracy. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. However, treating the customer with love is the best way to boost the bottom line in the long run. Perhaps not.

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The 5 Best Bargains in Business

In the CEO Afterlife

Here are the 5 best bargains in the world of business: Leadership heads the list. This is a corollary to leadership but it is also a core value that must permeate the entire organization. Sales went up and the company went into the black. In the final analysis, bureaucracy is every company’s greatest threat.

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Stop Numerator Thinking: Innovating Your Service Experience

Lead Change Blog

Numerator thinkers operate with an abundance mentality; denominator thinkers use a scarcity mentality. While they are respectful and inclusive, they know bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and the impediment to efficiency. Abandon the bottom of the equation and start being a numerator.

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Top Reasons Cultural Transformations Fail

The Practical Leader

Our Linked 2 Leadership group on LinkedIn (connect with me at [link] ) is having a lively and insightful discussion on the question, “What are the top reasons why cultural transformations fail?” ’” We strongly agree with this focus on leadership behavior. It isn’t either/or.

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An Interview with Peak Performance Expert David Silverman

HR Digest

Picking the right approach to leadership gets the most attention, but execution may be just as big a problem. There are a number of ways to do this, as outlined in co-author David Silverman’s leadership and management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.

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Getting Culture Right

You're Not the Boss of Me

Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → May 31, 2010 · 4:14 am ↓ Jump to Comments Getting Culture Right Earlier last week, I viewed a video, a parody actually, called Office Space: Meeting The Bobs. Successful leadership ~ The Story of a Man → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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