Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 18, 2014

You can have all the great plans, six sigma workouts, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence, and creativity to pull it off, you’re back to muddling through. Career & Learning Energy & Engagement execution leadership team leader'

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Six Sigma Team Execution Energy 503

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

At times, multiple languages and multiple software systems, assisted by translators, might provide a more systemic solution. That is, a more economically viable solution, in which the investment is off-set by the systemic savings. Systems theorist and educator Russell Ackoff also offered an explanation of this phenomenon.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As I listened to their leaders focus on hard processes, metrics, and systems it became crystal clear that the “soft skills” of leadership and culture weren’t even on their radar. Their plans to reduce their horrendous engagement and retention problem focused on better hiring/orientation practices and HR systems.

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Efficiency Six Sigma System Metrics 40

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. Roger explores his work on the HIV/AIDS problem and how it relates to applying statistical and systemic thinking to improve people’s lives.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

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. What we find is that job design, hiring profiles, and business processes play a significant part in optimizing a work system," Coco said.

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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. Think of how new metering systems and motion sensors suddenly require highly technical skills from contractors, plumbers and electricians.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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Six Sigma Health Care Fashion Human Resources 8