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

Management that doesn’t confront problems and make the necessary tough decisions to change, typically ends up with a culture focused on pride in the past and the protection of old procedures. I think we are seeing too much of this core issue and what we end up with is operational complexity and lack of innovation and forward momentum.

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Six Sigma COO Leadership Constraint 280

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In the strategy session, the CEO declared that technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company. If this was done it would be possible to use trainees and lower grade operatives more extensively. Lean Leadership: Boosting or Blocking Lean/Six Sigma Tools and Techniques.

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certifications both center on hands-on learning. The key takeaway?

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Knowing the challenges they had in hiring a qualified workforce locally, P&G helped launch a broad effort to fix education, from cradle to career. P&G committed corporate leadership, foundation grants and a modification of Six Sigma so nonprofits could more effectively manage to agreed-upon results.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8