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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

In vertically managed organizations, individual departments work to optimize their own internal efficiency. Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement. per million opportunities. Deming is the core of our management.” .