Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 18, 2014
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'
Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 19, 2017
At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization?
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Leading Blog
MARCH 21, 2011
In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. In a section titled, “Creativity and Six Sigma don’t Mix,” Herbold writes: Innovation is not an orderly process. Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. In What’s Holding You Back?
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?
The Practical Leader
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Recently I worked with the senior leadership team of a large warehouse and logistics company. As I listened to their leaders focus on hard processes, metrics, and systems it became crystal clear that the “soft skills” of leadership and culture weren’t even on their radar. A major part of that problem is turnover.
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.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff. And a lack of competence around designing and managing moods will seriously limit one’s career prospects – now and in the years to come. Most current management practices tend to devalue anything that can’t be measured.
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