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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

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

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What we see…

Deming Institute

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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Losing Heart…and People: Confusing Efficiency and Effectiveness

The Practical Leader

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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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Mind the (Skills) Gap

Harvard Business Review

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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What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness

Harvard Business Review

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.