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

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. This is accomplished by putting three things in place: “a clear vision with impact, aggressive strategies to achieve that vision, and a defined way of measuring success.”

Six Sigma 280

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers. But the key to success is a management process for focusing on business imperatives called "policy deployment," from the Japanese term " Hoshin Kanri."

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making. 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.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8