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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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The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The panels also supply electricity to extend the workdays of health clinics by providing light and powering equipment, thus improving public health, which also improves education and productivity by keeping citizens healthy. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work. The $300 House could create the same kind of virtuous cycle.

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The 6 Most Common Innovation Mistakes Companies Make

Harvard Business Review

The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas. Problems can range from entering new markets to addressing everyday concerns such as low employee engagement. Whatever they are, the more specific, the better.