Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Significance of Talent in Modern Business High performers are crucial to any organization’s success. A study encompassing over 600,000 individuals across various professions revealed that top performers are up to 800% more productive in complex jobs like software development and management.

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Operations Loyalty Efficiency Human Capital 119

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? How about reengineering, total quality management, performance management, learning organization, value analysis, managed care, or employee satisfaction?

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets. The fastest, most nimble organizations have a ratio of 11:2 — eleven employees pulling the organization forward for every two, dragging on growth and agility. So, people become defensive.

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IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and talent. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Running the business.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As a leader, you can decrease discomfort and increase productivity by increasing your awareness of personal style and organizational culture and how they interrelate. Recently some organizations like Zappos and HolocracyOne have made headlines with their managerless structures and intentions of adapting quickly to environmental changes.

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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. We need to unlearn the push model of marketing and explore alternative models.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8