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April 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

The best collaborative environments are situational in their approach to team decision-making.” Joel Garfinkle of Career Advancement Blog contributed Women In Leadership Roles: Are They Perceived Differently? Edwards Deming Institute , provided the podcast Transforming The Organization – With David Langford.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net. What had happened?

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful.