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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

Distorting the numbers, a form of creative accounting aimed at looking good rather than doing well, is rampant in American business. You will often see such stroies about successful sports teams and how their season long slogan helped them succeed. It seems pretty silly to act as though the slogan of the winning team mattered.

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Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Harvard Business Review

But the real power in the process was recruiting people from all over the company to form a series of "exploration teams" to define key areas of focus. The leaders of those teams then "tapped the people with the most knowledge and the most interesting ideas to take charge of actually developing strategy and plans in each area.".

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