The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 12, 2011

My last post illustrated how research with one Client pointed to leadership/culture development as the biggest internal change they must make. The goal is to succinctly identify the core factors at the root of the 50 – 70% failure rate of organization change initiatives and programs.

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Six Sigma Workshop Continuous Change Video 61

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Content piece from a Team Building & Leadership workshop Leading / Developing / Being a Part of High Performance Teams.

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Six Sigma Team Team Building Workshop 98

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Teams must have leadership. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Two key leader roles are required for a project team.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. You’ve made inferences about what matters to the person based on his/her position, department goals, public behavior and comments ?

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Project Six Sigma Team Building How To 109

Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

Everything returns to the work and developing a team that wants to stay together and continue to work together. Their expectations and goals for the work. The team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Team projects succeed of purpose.

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Project Team Tips Succession 132

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Olsher has developed a three-step process to help you uncover and reconnect with your natural strengths, identify the vehicle you’ll leverage to share your gifts with the world and the specific audiences who’ll benefit most from your gifts. Shift your focus away from time-consuming distractions and toward the pursuit of your personal goals.

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Six Sigma How To Self-aware Bottom-up 278

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Approaches like Six Sigma have helped companies squeeze out inefficiencies, but also tend to reinforce existing processes with an eye towards doing them better. Instead of working alone, partner with co-workers to achieve an explicit innovation goal. Additionally, managers are often schooled in slow, continuous improvement.

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Innovation Six Sigma Management Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves. Greater focus brings better results.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There is a simple but significant way to help achieve that goal: Evaluate and compensate CEOs, at least partly, on their ability to create a culture of aligned, engaged employees. Through leadership development programs, Six Sigma, and constant communication we made long-term investments in our people.

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Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Achieving the project goal within five days requires them to balance results and trust. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. ” He thought for a moment and replied, “No, we really don’t.”

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 28, 2011

12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Team Building & Leadership Model of Transferring Lessons into Organizational Reality. DiSC Team Building & Leadership. High Performance Team Development & Leadership Workshop with Executive MBA’s. Complexity and Achieving Goals at Work.

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Workshop Team Building Six Sigma Innovation 94

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

This is meant to be used during the meeting, you should have already chosen the team members , sent out an agenda for the meeting, and developed some goals/tasks to be accomplished. Developing these items will open-up the discussions and innovation to move your team and you forward. Are you following the steps? Referenced.

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Six Sigma Team Quality Delegation 142

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A new civic infrastructure or group of senior leadership from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors must be built and dedicated to the problem. The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. will require aligned goals and supporting systems to manage work between partners. To keep such a multiparty system from degenerating into chaos, virtual process teams must have aligned goals and support systems.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability. The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. When complaints to elected officials started mounting from property developers dissatisfied with delays, Girard pulled together a team from many divisions to address the problem.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. In 2014, the U.S.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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