Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” Pick one to three key areas for improvement and develop an action plan for desired change.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Alan Schein Photography/Getty Images. But you must also have the right data — lots of unbiased data, over the entire range of inputs for which one aims to develop the predictive model. Doing so will have the salutary effect of eliminating hidden data factories, saving you time and money in operations as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity. They enjoy the culture, and are typically reluctant to try anything that may jeopardize it.

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