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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

LNT has become the gold standard for organizations who operate in America’s backcountry environments. This argument was introduced by New York Life CEO Ted Mathas , while speaking at an event hosted by Outward Bound USA that honored New York Life Foundation's work with grieving teens. But perhaps it should be.

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GC29: GamifiKaizen: Using gamification for continuous improvement | with Gal Rimon of GamEffective

Engaging Leader

GamEffective strives to be the “Fitbit of work,” taking the place of traditional performance management, feedback, and even continuous improvement practices such as kaizens. Gal Rimon is CEO of GamEffective, […] Longtime listeners of Game Changer know that gamification isn’t about rewards and competition.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. That scares me. They are self-motivators.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success. The manufacturer has since introduced quality techniques (" kaizen " events), as well as Lean strategy deployment methods and tools.