N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Implementing Lean Principles: Lean methodologies, like Six Sigma, can optimize processes and minimize inefficiencies. The key to success lies in: Workshops and Training Sessions: These offer practical learning opportunities.

Learning Organization 251

Learning Organization Innovation Organization Six Sigma 251

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. Key Question: How do we SHARE our success? 1 The Translator.

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Six Sigma Team Execution Energy 503

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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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Open-book 209

Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2011

In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. This is accomplished by putting three things in place: “a clear vision with impact, aggressive strategies to achieve that vision, and a defined way of measuring success.” In What’s Holding You Back? It’s also a very fragile process.

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Six Sigma COO Leadership Constraint 280

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. Edwards Deming work should measure the success of what we are doing by the improvement in people’s lives.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The success of future managers will depend on their skill at ‘mood management’ – which means recognizing that the conversations taking place in the organization are not trivial utterances but are, in fact, the lifeblood of the enterprise. Most current management practices tend to devalue anything that can’t be measured.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

If I had to single out the leadership job that's hardest to do, I'd say head of sales. Manufacturing leaders can look to Six Sigma and other well-defined processes. Everyone knows that the ultimate measures of success in sales are revenue and profit. That makes training part art, part science, and all on the job.

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Six Sigma Leadership Metrics Learning-by-Doing 12