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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains. Implementing Lean Principles: Lean methodologies, like Six Sigma, can optimize processes and minimize inefficiencies. A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members.

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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career. The Fade Cycle is a powerful tool to help you stand back, analyze the issues with data, develop a solid solution, and execute with confidence. Select the solution — Multi-vote with the team and decide on one plan of attack.

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7 Roles of an Exceptional Team Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

You can have all the great plans, six sigma workouts, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence, and creativity to pull it off, you’re back to muddling through. Career & Learning Energy & Engagement execution leadership team leader'

Six Sigma 503
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How to Become a More Effective Manager #WinningWell

Let's Grow Leaders

You can have all the great plans, Six Sigma quality programs, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence and creativity to pull it off, you’re finished. They master the art of productive meetings, delegation, and problem solving.

Six Sigma 180
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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7

Strategy Driven

Degenerative or unproductive moods are tremendous, yet invisible, killers of productivity and profitability. Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Relate Articles: 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby. At home, we purchased our first Toyota product, a pick-up truck, after growing disappointment with 2 U.S. Twenty-nine years later, our family continues to own and drive Toyota products.

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Diet and Exercise Tips from Process Fitness Fanatics

Harvard Business Review

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects.