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'

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Six Sigma Team Execution Energy 503

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.

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

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. There are many ways we need to fix our current economic system. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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." And modern management systems must become far more adaptive. This seems like common sense; so why is it so hard? Three words: fear of failure.

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 12

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

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround.

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