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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

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.

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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career. Benefits: In many instances, quick, off-the-cuff 'executive' decisions are made to solve endemic problems (upper management is notorious for doing this — they know better than you).

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

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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What's Holding You Back? A Call for Gutsy Leadership

Leading Blog

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. In a section titled, “Creativity and Six Sigma don’t Mix,” Herbold writes: Innovation is not an orderly process.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

defects per million opportunities, the standard for Six Sigma Quality, or zero defects, the quality standard of Philip Crosby. In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement.

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

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. Edwards Deming work should measure the success of what we are doing by the improvement in people’s lives. Related: A Historical Look at Deming’s Career: Lecture by J.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7

Strategy Driven

Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Most current management practices tend to devalue anything that can’t be measured. Thus, many of the skills that were once derided as being ‘soft’ are now key drivers for success.