Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

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. How can I help spread the word?

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Six Sigma Management How To Short-term 180

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How many “leaders” are present at your college reunion, your country club, or your annual conference? At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? Keep reading the leadership books if you must, but branch out a bit.

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I’d like to focus on a few areas of Dr. Deming’s career that perhaps are under appreciated, not talked about as much as some other areas. The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. Related: A Historical Look at Deming’s Career: Lecture by J. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As such, it becomes imperative to develop competence at knowing how to listen for, design, and intervene in the critical conversations of the business as they literally shape the future. Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff. Decision-Making Warning Flag 2 – The Silent Nod.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Most of us in business, if we need to discover how to do something new, use PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheets to rationalize our approach. If you're an MBA-trained manager or executive, the odds are you were never, at any point in your educational or professional career given permission to fail, even on a "little bet."

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

What I would offer, instead, are some ways to think about the problem, some guiding principles to keep in mind over the long haul of a career: Be realistic about work. At Quest Diagnostics, we turned things around, in part, by adopting Six Sigma, which aims at a standard of perfection. Walk Your Way to More Effective Leadership.

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Career Six Sigma Deming Advice 17