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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Translators were employed for cross-border communications. It consists of five key actions.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

Teamwork all too often feels inefficient (search and coordination costs eat up time), risky (can I trust others to deliver for my client?), On the contrary, clarity about where the buck stops is one of the most critical enablers of efficient teamwork. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But collaboration is not consensus.

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Getting Collaboration Right

Harvard Business Review

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. Under-collaboration.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. External-Marketplace.

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