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3 Small Steps for a CEO, One Giant Leap for Leadership

LDRLB

CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. They spearhead innovation by ensuring their organization’s cultural norm is continuous change and creativity. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses.

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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. If you want to shake up your organization in a way most of your people are not positioned or predisposed to attempt, the top-down approach is very alluring.

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3 Small Steps for a CEO, One Giant Leap for a Leader

In the CEO Afterlife

CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. They spearhead innovation by ensuring their organization’s cultural norm is continuous change and creativity. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses.

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