Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent’s talk drives home the importance of focusing on what you learn and how to apply what you learn. And directing that thought at experiments, what the experiment results mean and how we can apply what we have learned to our organization are great areas in which to focus our thinking on. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. As leaders, we all need to learn how to lead during tough times, and how to turn around a struggling organization. Even sworn enemies should be able to band together to fight off an invasion of a common foe. I’ve already written about it.

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Tony Mayo

MAY 7, 2010

Biography of Werner Erhard, the Source of Executive Coaching How to Conduct a "Customer Listening Session" Twitter Log XII Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. CEO Executive Coaching Fees My Protein Shake Recipe One more question. Author About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Comments are welcome. – What Makes a Great Teacher?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Tim Milburn

DECEMBER 14, 2010

It’s not trying to learn how to do 5000 things well. The Japanese call this “kaizen&# or continuous improvement. It’s a process of focusing on a very few things and honing them to the point that the basics become second nature and the execution is nothing short of remarkable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. These challenges differed depending on people’s backgrounds and location. Two groups had the steepest learning curve in particular.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

How should smart machines be programmed — or trained — to offer up new insights or kaizen? The same leadership, managerial, and motivational questions that haunt smart human organizations now stalk today’s globally-networked cyborganziations: Would 360-degree performance reviews lead to new insights and efficiencies?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. As companies think about how to change this, they should focus on the jobs that will survive into the future.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2012

The understanding of how the system works and how to interact with the customer increases. All of this is their judgment and decision in solving the problems that arise during their tasks. Surface Understanding After some time the rep. begins to work on his own, taking calls, solving problems and dealing with customers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Kaizen, Japanese for "continuous improvement," is Toyota''s self-described business model. But how to distinguish the good from the bad? You Can''t Eat a Check. In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity New York Times. A cleaned-up web would be more meaningful and, ultimately, more useful.

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Henderson Banking Kaizen Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. .” In other words, training divorced from excellence is mere compliance. It is more “box ticking” than human capital investment. Is “above average” training really worth the time, energy and expense?

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The question then became: How to establish credibility by making permitting easier and quicker? Planning how to accomplish the change. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement. Implementing the change. Change leaders work across boundaries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

To avoid that problem, Sheehan and his team introduced the Vacation Hero program, which taught staff how to better engage guests and identify employees who had gone out of their way to make a passenger’s stay special. When they confront overload, managers often react in ways that put distance between themselves and the front line.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Okay, let's roll out a new sales training program that teaches salespeople how to be more customer-focused. Excellent sales forces continuously improve capability around every sales force effectiveness driver through "kaizen." When it comes to enhancing sales force productivity and performance, it's tempting to look for silver bullets.

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Kaizen Incentives Market Segmentation Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

As an MBA, I had become fascinated with Kaizen and other process-improvement techniques. The second was human performance; we weren’t even thinking of cycling, but more about behavioral psychology and how to create an environment for optimum performance. Aiming for gold was too daunting. ” The first one was strategy.

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