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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Competition Leadership Retail' But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It appears Toyota’s decentralized structure, which served it well for many years, turned into a liability as the company continued to grow and dominate worldwide markets. operation and then over to Japan where they were reviewed by a special committee – which would then have to communicate back to the U.S. What went wrong?

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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

Coaching Tip

Certainly, these folks have the skill to develop a major corporation, after all that is precisely how we came to know their names. One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. Star power is real. But we were taught the downside of this as well - the lack of broad expertise and the danger of myopia.