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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

Operational Excellence is a systematic approach to improving business processes and performance. The Significance of Talent in Modern Business High performers are crucial to any organization’s success. Employee Empowerment: A core aspect of operational excellence is empowering employees to contribute to continuous improvement.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

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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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

In vertically managed organizations, individual departments work to optimize their own internal efficiency. Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon. This usually happened when times were good, when organizations felt a little more ebullient about their prospects and generous toward their employees. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

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. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Learn to expect, predict, understand and relish success.