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? Sounds a lot clearer than saying “we are going to embark on a six sigma project to improve efficiency,” doesn’t it?

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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. Maybe free markets, maybe capitalism, maybe the opportunity to earn a living through business, maybe that is part of the solution. Not the whole solution but maybe that is part of it.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Think of how new metering systems and motion sensors suddenly require highly technical skills from contractors, plumbers and electricians.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17